Re: unicode .replace not working - why?

2008-10-18 Thread Kurt Peters
d (but maybe you were distracted by his 'fn' > replacement, so I'll leave it out): > >textu = textu.replace(unichr(167),'\n') > > .replace does not modify the string in place. It returns the modified > string, so you have to reassign it. > > -

Re: unicode .replace not working - why?

2008-10-12 Thread Kurt Peters
t posts attempting to shed some light on the subject. Regards, Kurt "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Oct 12, 7:05 am, Kurt Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using the code below to read a pdf document, and it has no

Re: unicode .replace not working - why?

2008-10-12 Thread Kurt Peters
Thanks... On a side note, do you really think the function call wouldn't interpret the unichr before the function call? Kurt "Peter Otten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Kurt Peters wrote: > >> I had done that about 21 revi

Re: unicode .replace not working - why?

2008-10-11 Thread Kurt Peters
I had done that about 21 revisions ago. Nevertheless, why would you think that would work, when the code as shown doesn't? kurt "Dennis Lee Bieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:05:43 -0500, Kurt Peters > <[E

unicode .replace not working - why?

2008-10-11 Thread Kurt Peters
I'm using the code below to read a pdf document, and it has no line feeds or carriage returns in the imported text. I'm therefore trying to just replace the symbol that looks like it would be an end of line (found by examining the characters in the "for loop") unichr(167). Unfortunately, the