Pound sign problem

[Lew Pitcher]

David Shi wrote:

> In the data set, pound sign escape appears:
> u'price_currency': u'\xa3', u'price_formatted': u'\xa3525,000',
> When using table.to_csv after importing pandas as pd, an error message
> persists as follows: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
> character u'\xa3' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

There is no "pound sign" in ASCII[1]. Try changing your target encoding to 
something other than ASCII.

[1]: See http://std.dkuug.dk/i18n/charmaps/ascii for a list of valid ASCII 
values.

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