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[jak]

Il 24/06/2022 15:44, jak ha scritto:
> 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.
P.S.
renaming the file extension does not change its content but it is useful
for the system to select the app that knows how to manage it