["python","pandas","dataframe","csv","file-io"]
Writing a pandas DataFrame to CSV file

I have a dataframe in pandas which I would like to write to a CSV file. I am doing this using: df.to_csv('out.csv') And getting the following error: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u03b1' in position 20: ordinal not in range(128) 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)?
To delimit by a tab you can use the sep argument of to_csv: df.to_csv(file_name, sep='\t') To use a specific encoding (e.g. 'utf-8') use the encoding argument: df.to_csv(file_name, sep='\t', encoding='utf-8') In many cases you will want to remove the index and add a header: df.to_csv(file_name, sep='\t', encoding='utf-8', index=False, header=True)