- example-extracttext now outputs unicode

Author: mikemaccana

example-extracttext.py

@@ -12,21 +12,19 @@
 if __name__ == '__main__':        
     try:
         document = opendocx(sys.argv[1])
+        newfile = open(sys.argv[2],'w')        
     except:
-        print('Please supply a filename. For example:')    
-        print('''  example-extracttext.py 'My Office 2007 document.docx' ''')    
+        print('Please supply an input and output file. For example:')    
+        print('''  example-extracttext.py 'My Office 2007 document.docx' 'outputfile.txt' ''')    
         exit()
     ## Fetch all the text out of the document we just created        
     paratextlist = getdocumenttext(document)    
 
-    # Note that if using shell redirection &>, 1> 2> etc) Python tries to 
-    # change the unicode into ASCII and fails - even with a UTF-8 $LANG
-    # As a workaround, create our own ASCII copy of the list.
-    asciiparatextlist = []
+    # Make explicit unicode version    
+    newparatextlist = []
     for paratext in paratextlist:
-        asciiparatextlist.append(paratext.encode("ascii", "backslashreplace"))
+        newparatextlist.append(paratext.encode("utf-8"))                  
 
     ## Print our documnts test with two newlines under each paragraph
-    print '\n\n'.join(paratextlist)
-    
-        
+    newfile.write('\n\n'.join(newparatextlist))
+    #print '\n\n'.join(newparatextlist)