getting text out of an xml string

[John Machin]

On Mar 5, 8:57 am, JT <jeff.temp... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 4, 9:30 pm, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
>
> > Your data has been FUABARred (the first A being for Almost) -- the
> > "\u3c00" and "\u3e00" were once "<" and ">" respectively. You will
>
> Hi John,
>
>    I realized that a few minutes after posting.  I then realized that
> I could just extract the text between the stuff with \u3c00 xml
> preserve etc, which I did; it was good enough since it was a one-off
> affair, I had to convert a to-do list from one program to another.
> Thanks for replying and sorry for the noise :-)

Next time you need to extract some data from an xml file, please (for
your own good) don't do whatever you did in that code -- note that the
unicode equivalent of "<" is u"\u003c", NOT u"\u3c00"; I wasn't joking
when I said it had been FU.