Unicode string handling problem (revised)

[John Machin]

Richard Schulman wrote:
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>     in_line = in_file.readline()
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We'd already deduced that that line was incorrectly published.
Please don't start new threads like this; if you want to make a
correction, do a couple-of-lines reply to your original message.
Now please leave this new thread alone, and reply to the
much-more-meaningful questions in the original thread.