pydata/pandas — Issue #777: DataFrame with high ascii cannot be displayed in IPython (regression from 0.6.1)
Author: davidbrai
Created: 2012-02-13 00:26:37+00:00
State: open

In pandas 0.6.1:
In [13]: pandas.version.version
Out[13]: '0.6.1'

In [14]: pandas.DataFrame(['\xc2'])
Out[14]:
0
0 ┬

In pandas 0.7.0:
In [2]: pandas.version.version
Out[2]: '0.7.0'

In [3]: pandas.DataFrame(['\xc2'])
.....
C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\common.pyc in _stringify(col)
503 def _stringify(col):
504 # unicode workaround

--> 505 return unicode(col)
506
507 def _maybe_make_list(obj):

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)