Cannot replace special characters in a Python pandas dataframe
问题 I'm working with Python 3.5 in Windows. I have a dataframe where a 'titles' str type column contains titles of headlines, some of which have special characters such as â , € , ˜ . I am trying to replace these with a space '' using pandas.replace . I have tried various iterations and nothing works. I am able to replace regular characters, but these special characters just don't seem to work. The code runs without error, but the replacement simply does not occur, and instead the original title