mahoney@cs weird_characters$ python Python 2.4.2 (#2, Sep 30 2005, 21:19:01) [GCC 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu8)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> input = open('test3.html') >>> text = input.read() >>> text '\xef\xbb\xbf\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMCGC Student Space - Nate Batts\r\n\r\n\r\n
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MCGC Student Space - Nate Batts

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Site Goals

\r\nWelcome! This will by my student space throughout my career as a graduate student at Marlboro College. This space will be used to display work, post assignments, gauge progress, and keep others updated. lease check back often as this page will be changing frequently as I learn new skills. My goal is to follow the recommendations of the W3C in order to use XHTML for structure and CSS for style. Thanks for stopping in!\r\n

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Updates

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\r\nThis site has already seen it\'s first update! I\'m still using embeded style sheets until I get a better handle on it. This style sheet uses 3 column absolute positioning.\r\n

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\r\n\r\n' >>> ord('\xef') # hex: ef 239 >>> ord('\xbb') # hex: bb 187 >>> ord('\xbf') # hex: bf 191 >>>