pandas读取并写入excel过程当中出现ValueError: source code string cannot contain null bytes

pandas读取并写入excel过程当中出现ValueError: source code string cannot contain null bytes

设备：macbookpro
系统：10.14.5
python小白，使用anaconda中spder导入pandas写入excel出现异常，说源代码字符串中不能包含空字符，检查了代码，没有发现代码中出现空字符，纠结了近两天，希望能有大神帮忙看一下。

import pandas as pd
import sys
input_file = sys.argv[1]
output_file = sys.argv[2]
data_frame = pd.read_excel(input_file, sheet_name='january_2013')
writer = pd.ExcelWriter(output_file)
data_frame.to_excel(writer, sheet_name='jan_13_output', index=False)
writer.save()

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./b_excel.py", line 14, in <module>
    writer = pd.ExcelWriter(output_file