thank you both - in the end I used recode, which I wasn't aware of.
Fredrik, I had come across your script while googling for solutions,
but failed to make it work
On Dec 13, 2:21 pm, "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "ardief" wrote:
> > sorry if I'm asking something very obvious bu
"ardief" wrote:
> sorry if I'm asking something very obvious but I'm stumped. I have a
> text that looks like this:
>
> Sentence 401
> 4.00pm — We set off again; this time via Tony's home to collect
> a variety of possessions, finally arriving at hospital no.3.
> Sentence 402
> 4.55pm — Tony is
ardief wrote:
[...]
> And I want the HTML char codes to turn into their equivalent plain
> text. I've looked at the newsgroup archives, the cookbook, the web in
> general and can't manage to sort it out. I thought doing something like
> this -
>
> file = open('filename', 'r')
It's not a good idea
