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

You can use built-in strip() method for python strings.

for each cell:

text = str(illegal_text).strip()

for entire data frame:

dataframe = dataframe.applymap(lambda t: str(t).strip())