Replacing multiple special characters

Question

I want to get rid of multiple special characters that might show up in a specific column and replace it with a space but I keep getting this error when I try to write my file to an excel document.

Exception: Invalid Excel character '[]:*?/\' in sheetname 'AL DINTE LASA/JACKY'S'

I have already tried the below but it is not working but I dont know why that should get rid of multiple special characters and then replace it with an underscore.

 df['Name'].replace(["/''//'-[]:*?/\\/#",'_'],regex=True)

I dont know what else to try I cant seem to get around this error, am I just not using df.replace correctly?

Answer 1

The problem is not in the spreadsheet data itself - it is in the name of the spreadsheet. Specifically, the slash is not allowed in the sheetname. You can change the name to "AL DINTE LASA-JACKY'S" and it should work fine.