unicode .replace not working - why?

[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" <__peter__ at web.de> wrote in message 
news:gcsaqq$5bf$01$1 at news.t-online.com...
> Kurt Peters wrote:
>
>> I had done that about 21 revisions ago.
>
> If you litter your module with code that is commented out it is hard to 
> keep
> track of what works and what doesn't.
>
>> Nevertheless, why would you think
>> that would work, when the code as shown doesn't?
>
> Because he knows Python? Why don't /you/ try it before asking that 
> question?
>
> A good place to do "exploratory" programming is Python's interactive
> interpreter. Here's a sample session:
>
> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jul 31 2008, 23:17:43)
> [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> from pyPdf import PdfFileReader as PFR
>>>> doc = PFR(open("SUA.pdf"))
>>>> text = doc.getPage(3).extractText()
>>>> type(text)
> <type 'unicode'>
>>>> text[:200]
> u'2/16/08                7400.8P Table of Contents - Continued  Section 
> Page
> \                                   xa773.49  New Hampshire (NH) 50
> \xa773.50  New Jersey (NJ) 50 \xa773.51  New Mex
> ico (NM) 51 \xa773.52  New York (NY) 56 \xa773.53  North '
>>>> print text[:200].replace(u"\xa7", u"\n")
> 2/16/08                7400.8P Table of Contents - Continued  Section Page
> 73.49  New Hampshire (NH) 50
> 73.50  New Jersey (NJ) 50
> 73.51  New Mexico (NM) 51
> 73.52  New York (NY) 56
> 73.53  North
>
> Peter