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
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