Request for py program to insert space between two characters and saved as text?

[Dave Angel]

r0g wrote:
> Dave Angel wrote:
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>> r0g wrote:
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>>> Dave Angel wrote:
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>>>> r0g wrote:
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>>>>> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
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>>>>>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 08:26:58 +0530, 74yrs old <withblessings at gmail.com>
>>>>>> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
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>>>>>>> For Kannada project .txt(not .doc) is used, my requirement is to
>>>>>>> have one
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>>>>>>>               
>>>>> <big snip>
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>> That's even worse.  As far as I can tell, the code will never do what he
>> wants in Python 2.x.   The Kannada text file is full of Unicode
>> characters in some encoding, and if you ignore the encoding, you'll just
>> get garbage.
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> Ah, fair enough. In my defence though I never saw the original post or
> this kannada.txt file as my newsserver is not so much with the
> reliability. I guess it's naive to assume an english .txt file is going
> to be in ASCII these days eh?
>
> I've yet to try python 3 yet either, this whole Unicode thing looks like
> it could be a total nightmare! :(
>
> Roger.
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>   
But it isn't an english  .txt file, it's a Kannada  .txt file.   
Presumably you didn't realize that Kannada is a (non-English) language, 
spoken in parts of India, with several hundred characters.  ASCII wasn't 
even an option.  Anyway, no harm done, someone else referred the OP to a 
Python user-group local to that region.

DaveA