Readlines returns non ASCII character

[SANKAR .]

Hi all,

I am not a expert programmer but I have to extract information from a large
file.
 I used  codecs.open(..) with UTF16 encoding to read this file. It could
read all the lines in the file but returns with the non Ascii characters.
Below are 5 sample lines. How do I avoid having this non Ascii items. Is
there a better way to read this?



Thanks
Sankar


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2 0 1 5 - 0 8 - 2 8 ÿþÿ1 7 : 2 2 : 0 3 Á
       í    
0ÿþÿE L E K T A _
E O S _ R T D _ V X 2 ÿþÿ ÿþÿ 
0ÿþÿ ÿþÿ ÿþÿ 
0ÿþÿ ÿþÿ ÿþÿ 
0ÿþÿ ÿþÿ
ÿþÿ              ¸

0ÿþÿ ÿþÿM L C X ÿþÿM L C X 
 
Pÿþÿ0 . 0 ÿþÿ0 . 0 ÿþÿ0 . 0 

Pÿþÿ              ÿþÿ              ÿþÿN o n e  
Pÿþÿ
ÿþÿ              ÿþÿ
0  
Pÿþÿ              ÿþÿ              ÿþÿO U T 

Pÿþÿ              ÿþÿ              ÿþÿ
0  
Pÿþÿ
ÿþÿ              ÿþÿ- 5 . 0  
Pÿþÿ              ÿþÿ              ÿþÿ6
0 . 0   
Pÿþÿ              ÿþÿ              ÿþÿ0 . 5 2

 
Pÿþÿ              ÿþÿ              ÿþÿ6 . 4 9

 
Pÿþÿ              ÿþÿ              ÿþÿ2 0 . 0 0
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