Mark T wrote: > "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> If you got that from a file, I bet you read it using the wrong >> encoding. Try opening the file using codecs.open("filename", "rb", >> encoding="utf-16-be") instead of plain open. > There is an odd number of bytes in each string. Each begins and ends > with \x00, so it doesn't look like utf-16-be. I think Gabriel is right. The OP probably butchered the original structure with open(filename).read().split("\n") Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list