Special Characters

[Sick Monkey]

I have a quick question about handling values with special characters.

Lets say I have a file which contains:
==================================
   blah#blah
==================================
Here is what I have for my code:
   f6 = open(fileAttached)
   msInfo = f6.readlines(); f6.close()
   varName = msInfo[0]
   ....
   smtp.login(uname,varName)
   ...
==================================
I am trying to connect to a mailserver, and it keeps failing.  My guess is
that the "#" sign messing up.  Is there anyway to encode that character?
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