Khalid Moulfi wrote: > > Actually, I'm a little bit blocked. > > I have, let's say, thousands of file (NIST file). In the first line of > all of them I have tag numbers plus many informations, even sometimes > strange chararcters (Maybe Hexadecimal). > A line can look like : > > 1.001:nnnn<Special character>1.002:xxxx<Special > character>...2.083:Strange character<Special character>2.087:Strange > character > > First, when I read the 1st line of each of these files and do a > len(line), I do not have the same number of chararcters between the > return of len(line) and the number returned by the editor Scite (It > gives the number of column).
Your description is too sketchy to come with a real analysis, but if you're reading a file that contains more than just simple text characters, you probably need to open the file in binary mode: f = open( 'xxxx.bin', 'rb' ) You probably need to examine this file with a hex editor to figure out what it really contains. If you want, you could send me one of the files, and a detailed description of what you want out of them. Perhaps we can come with a data structure that's easier to work with. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32