I have a dataframe in pandas which I would like to write to a CSV file.
I am doing this using:
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df.to_csv('out.csv')2
And getting the following error:
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UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'u03b1' in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)2
- Is there any way to get around this easily (i.e. I have unicode characters in my data frame)?
- And is there a way to write to a tab delimited file instead of a CSV using e.g. a ‘to-tab’ method (that I don’t think exists)?
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Answer
To delimit by a tab you can use the sep argument of to_csv:
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df.to_csv(file_name, sep='t')2
To use a specific encoding (e.g. ‘utf-8’) use the encoding argument:
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df.to_csv(file_name, sep='t', encoding='utf-8')2