UnicodeDecodeError in DataFrame.__repr__() for non-ascii column names #2576
Description
Here is the traceback using Python 2.7.3 and Pandas trunk.
/pandas/core/frame.pyc in __repr__(self)
678 Yields Bytestring in Py2, Unicode String in py3.
679 """
--> 680 return str(self)
681
682 def _repr_html_(self):
/pandas/core/frame.pyc in __str__(self)
634 if py3compat.PY3:
635 return self.__unicode__()
--> 636 return self.__bytes__()
637
638 def __bytes__(self):
/pandas/core/frame.pyc in __bytes__(self)
644 """
645 encoding = com.get_option("display.encoding")
--> 646 return self.__unicode__().encode(encoding , 'replace')
647
648 def __unicode__(self):
/pandas/core/frame.pyc in __unicode__(self)
655 buf = StringIO(u"")
656 if self._need_info_repr_():
--> 657 self.info(buf=buf, verbose=self._verbose_info)
658 else:
659 is_wide = self._need_wide_repr()
/pandas/core/frame.pyc in info(self, verbose, buf, max_cols)
1624 dtypes = ['%s(%d)' % k for k in sorted(counts.iteritems())]
1625 lines.append('dtypes: %s' % ', '.join(dtypes))
-> 1626 _put_lines(buf, lines)
1627
1628 @property
/pandas/core/format.pyc in _put_lines(buf, lines)
1443 def _put_lines(buf, lines):
1444 if any(isinstance(x, unicode) for x in lines):
-> 1445 lines = [unicode(x) for x in lines]
1446 buf.write('\n'.join(lines))
1447
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd5 in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)