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Taking this a little further along, I wrote the converted file to a new file using: import re,sys output = open(r'e:\pycode\out_test.txt','wb') for line in open(r'e:\pycode\sigh.txt','rb') : output.write( re.sub(r'([^\w\s])', lambda s: '%%%2X' % ord(s.group()), line)) output.close() Not elegant but its strictly for test :) Last part and we can call it a day. How would you modify the lambda statement to covert a the hex value back to its original value? Do I need to incorporate base64.16basedecode somehow? The original perl code to covert back to normal is: `perl -ple 's/(?:%([0-9A-F]{2}))/chr hex $1/eg' somefiletxt Kent Johnson wrote: > Yes, this is a feature of print, it always inserts a newline. To avoid > this, use sys.stdout.write() instead of print: > for line i open(r'e:\pycode\sigh.txt','rb'): > line = re.sub(r'([^\w\s])', lambda s: '%%%2X' % ord(s.group()), line) > sys.stdout.write(line) > > Kent > <snip> </snip> - -- Thank you, Andrew Robert Systems Architect Information Technologies MFS Investment Management Phone: 617-954-5882 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User Number: #201204 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEdacCDvn/4H0LjDwRAkTWAJ4/KS6WnAgUraPZLmyPCQ45izq5tQCgl7sR nkZbIauRcdlavA89ZhnDSuM= =YZPS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor