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    <p>I was trying to write a program where I can upload a file that has first and last names in it and create a new file with the first letter of each first name followed by the last name.</p> <p>The file that I created is a textfile and the lines would be like this:</p> <pre><code>firstname1 lastname1 (for example, john smith) firstname2 lastname2 (for example jane jones) firstname 3 lastname3 (for example jane doe) etc... </code></pre> <p>I want to create a file that would look like this:</p> <pre><code>jsmith jjones jdoe </code></pre> <p>The issue that I am getting is that when I open the file in python it gives me all of these weird unwanted characters before getting to the actual text of the file. The book I am using to learn from doesn't say anything about this which is why i am posting here. </p> <p>For example when I upload the file and run the following command:</p> <pre><code>newfile=open("example.file.rtf","r") for i in newfile: print(i) </code></pre> <p>I get this: </p> <pre><code>{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf949\cocoasubrtf540 {\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;} {\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;} \margl1440\margr1440\vieww9000\viewh8400\viewkind0 \pard\tx560\tx1120\tx1680\tx2240\tx2800\tx3360\tx3920\tx4480\tx5040\tx5600\tx6160\tx6720\ql\qnatural\pardirnatural \f0\fs24 \cf0 name 1\ name 2\ name 3 \ name 4 \ </code></pre> <p>The actual text that I wrote in the textfile was just this:</p> <pre><code>name 1 name 2 name 3 name 4 </code></pre> <p>Why is this happening? Why wouldn't it just show the plain text? If I can't get it to do that, how can I get around this issue for when I run loops through the file. </p>
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    1. CO"The file that I created is a textfile"... it's not a plain text file, it's an RTF file. If you want to create a plain text file, use Notepad not some fancy document processor.
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    2. COThis question appears to be off-topic because it is, in fact, not a programming problem but an issue creating a plain text file.
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