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

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Date 2014-05-13 23:55 +1000
Subject Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.9968.1399989361.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>
>     This {EN DASH} is an n-dash.
>
> or:
>
>     x\x9c\x0b\xc9\xc8,V\xa8v\xf5Spq\x0c\xf6\xa8U\x00r\x12
>     \xf3\x14\xf2tS\x12\x8b3\xf4\x00\x82^\x08\xf8
>
>
> (that last one is the text passed through the zlib compressor)

I had to decompress that just to see what "text" you passed through
zlib, given that zlib is a *byte* compressor :) Turns out it's the
braced notation given above, encoded as ASCII/UTF-8.

ChrisA

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Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? scottcabit@gmail.com - 2014-05-09 12:51 -0700
  Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-05-09 21:03 +0100
    Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? scottcabit@gmail.com - 2014-05-09 13:46 -0700
  Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-10 06:08 +1000
  Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-05-09 15:09 -0500
    Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? scottcabit@gmail.com - 2014-05-09 13:49 -0700
      Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-10 00:31 +0000
  Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-10 00:12 +0000
    Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? scottcabit@gmail.com - 2014-05-12 10:35 -0700
      Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-12 20:00 -0700
      Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-05-12 17:15 -0400
      Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-13 13:49 +0000
        Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-13 23:55 +1000
        Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? scottcabit@gmail.com - 2014-05-13 12:01 -0700
          Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-05-13 21:26 +0100
            Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-05-13 23:12 -0700
              Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-14 13:21 +0000
            Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? scottcabit@gmail.com - 2014-05-14 07:40 -0700
  Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 21:22 -0700
    Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-05-10 00:11 -0700
      Re: Why isn't my re.sub replacing the contents of my MS Word file? Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-05-10 09:49 +0100

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