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[jak]

Il 24/06/2022 15:10, simone zambonardi ha scritto:
> Good morning, I need to read a text file. How come when I open it (running the script) it says this? The text file is type RFT
> 
> {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf2636
> \cocoatextscaling0\cocoaplatform0{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;}
> {\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;}
> {\*\expandedcolortbl;;}
> \paperw11900\paperh16840\margl1440\margr1440\vieww11520\viewh8400\viewkind0
> \pard\tx566\tx1133\tx1700\tx2267\tx2834\tx3401\tx3968\tx4535\tx5102\tx5669\tx6236\tx6803\pardirnatural\partightenfactor0
> 
> \f0\fs24 \cf0
> 
> But even with in .txt it gives me this long string. I think it is a formatting problem .
> thank you


I don't see the script you are talking about but it is normal to find
those strings inside a file of type '.rtf'. RTF documents are not simple
text documents (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format) so if
you want to extract the text contained in these documents you will need
to use a library that can do this
(eg: https://pypi.org/project/striprtf/)
...or write a parser yourself.