Looking for Form Feeds

[Terry Hancock]

On Monday 24 January 2005 03:32 pm, Greg Lindstrom wrote:
> I also tried to create a ^M^L (typed in as <ctrl>Q M <ctrlQ> L) but that 
> gives me a syntax error when I try to run the program (re does not like 
> the control characters, I guess).  Is it possible for me to pull out the 
> formfeeds in a straightforward manner?

I suspect you should convert that to hexadecimal codes: '\x0c\x0b'
(at least I *think* those are the characters you mean, I'm not really
familiar with the ^X notation).  That would be the simplest solution,
probably.  Anytime I get into unprintable characters, I like to switch
to hex.

So you could just do something like:

pages = open('myfile.dat', 'rb').read().split('\x0c\x0b')

to load each page into a list, for example.

HTH,
Terry

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