regular expressions, unicode and XML

[Justin Ezequiel]

>> when I replace it end up with nothing: i.e., just a "
" character in my
>> file.

how are you viewing the contents of your file?
are you printing it out to stdout?
are you opening your file in a non-unicode aware editor?
try print repr(data) after re.sub so that you see what you actually
have in data

btw, from where did you get you XML files?