How can I resolve TypeError with StringIO in Python 2.7?
You can resolve the error by simply adding a u before your string to make the string unicode:
datastring = StringIO(u"""\Country Metric 2011 2012 2013 2014USA GDP 7 4 0 2USA Pop. 2 3 0 3GB GDP 8 7 0 7GB Pop. 2 6 0 0FR GDP 5 0 0 1FR Pop. 1 1 0 5""")Your initial value should be unicode.