How to remove illegal characters so a dataframe can write to Excel

Question

I am trying to write a dataframe to an Excel spreadsheet using ExcelWriter, but it keeps returning an error:

openpyxl.utils.exceptions.IllegalCharacterError
         


        

Answer 1

If you're still struggling to clean up the characters, this worked well for me:

import xlwings as xw
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_pickle('C:\\Users\\User1\\picked_DataFrame_notWriting.df')
topath = 'C:\\Users\\User1\\tryAgain.xlsx'
wb = xw.Book(topath)
ws = wb.sheets['Data']
ws.range('A1').options(index=False).value = df
wb.save()
wb.close()