Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file?

[scottcabit at gmail.com]

On Friday, May 9, 2014 8:12:57 PM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Good:
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>     fStr = re.sub(b'&#x2012', b'-', fStr)
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  Doesn't work...the document has been verified to contain endash and emdash characters, but this does NOT replace them.
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> Better:
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>     fStr = fStr.replace(b'&#x2012', b'-')
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   Still doesn't work
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> But having said that, you actually can make use of the nuclear-powered 
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> bulldozer, and do all the replacements in one go:
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> Best:
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>     # Untested
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>     fStr = re.sub(b'&#x(201[2-5])|(2E3[AB])|(00[2A]D)', b'-', fStr)

  Still doesn't work.

  Guess whatever the code is for endash and mdash are not the ones I am using....