In article <66e4164c-e81d-4a65-b847-c5ef900fa...@a37g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>, dilip raghavan <dilip198...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been trying to read contents from a file in MAC. > I wrote the code > > filename = "test.rtf" > FileHandle = open(filename,'r') > > fileStr = FileHandle.read() > print fileStr > FileHandle.close() > > When I see the output I see a lot of junk. The junk is like a lot of > question marks, the font information and other details of the file. > The actual content is lost in the junk. > > I have tried other methods like readline but still I see the junk. > I tried the asme code in windows and it worked correctly. > Can any one tell me the reason and the solution for this.
With an extension of "rtf", the file is presumably a "Rich Text Format" file. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format There are some Python packages out there for dealing with rtf format files. You might try rtf2xml to convert the file, preserving style attributes: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rtf2xml/ Or look at the Mac OS X command line utility textutil (man 1 textutil) to convert the file to another format. Or use the OS X TextEdit.app. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
