[Tutor] \x00T\x00r\x00i\x00a\x00 ie I get \x00 breaking up every character ?

[Steve Willoughby]

On 20-Nov-11 12:04, Sarma Tangirala wrote:
> Would the html parser library in python be a better idea as opposed to
> using split? That way you have greater control over what is in the html.

Absolutely. And it would handle improper HTML (like unmatched brackets) 
gracefully where the split will just do the wrong thing.

>
> On 20 Nov 2011 23:58, "dave selby" <dave6502 at gmail.com
> <mailto:dave6502 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     I have a long string which is an HTML file, I strip the HTML tags away
>     and make a list with
>
>     text = re.split('<.*?>', HTML)
>
>     I then tried to search for a string with text.index(...) but it was
>     not found, printing HTML to a terminal I get what I expect, a block of
>     tags and text, I split the HTML and print text and I get loads of
>
>     \x00T\x00r\x00i\x00a\x00  ie I get \x00 breaking up every character.
>
>     Any idea what is happening and how to get back to a list of ascii
>     strings ?
>
>     Cheers
>
>     Dave
>
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