read error on Python in mac

Question

I'm a new learner of Python and use python 2.7 in mac ox 10.8.3.

Today I met a problem that python don't get the right data when executing file reading.

my input file include two website url like this:

    www.google.com
    www.facebook.com

and python codes are below, just to print the input:

f = open("weblist.rtf","r")
print f.read()
f.close()

But after run, output is like this:

    {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf1187\cocoasubrtf370
    {\fonttbl\f0\fnil\fcharset134 STHeitiSC-Medium;}
    {\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;}
    \paperw11900\paperh16840\margl1440\margr1440\vieww12200\viewh12840\viewkind1
    \pard\tx566\tx1133\tx1700\tx2267\tx2834\tx3401\tx3968\tx4535\tx5102\tx5669\tx6236\tx6803\pardirnatural

   \f0\b\fs36 \cf0 www.google.com\
   www.facebook.com}

How to solve this problem? Anyone has suggestion?

It's not a read error. Your text file is an RTF file. That's what it looks like. — Blender
– Blender, Commented May 15, 2013 at 5:38

albusshin · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-15 05:41:12Z

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RTF files are not like simple text files (for example, windows .txt files), and there're specific headers for RTF files.

You may have a try on a simple text file instead of other kind of text files.

answered May 15, 2013 at 5:41

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william Over a year ago

Thank you for the help. I changed it to a text file and solved the problem. Great Help

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:09:20Z

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You cannot treat RTF files like normal text files and read them line-by-line.

You could look at the following link on stackoverflow which deals with converting RTF files to text files.

Is there a Python module for converting RTF to plain text?

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:09

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answered May 15, 2013 at 5:57

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