So Kent's syntax worked to convert my Unicode file to plain text. But now my data is double space. How can I fix this. Here is the code I'm using.
import codecs inp = codecs.open('g:\\data\\amm\\text files\\test20090320.txt', 'r', 'utf-16') outp = open('g:\\data\\amm\\text files\\new_text_file.txt', 'w') outp.writelines(inp) inp.close() outp.close() Thanks so much for your help! matt Matthew Pirritano, Ph.D. Research Analyst IV Medical Services Initiative (MSI) Orange County Health Care Agency (714) 568-5648 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor