open text file

[simone zambonardi]

Good morning, I need to read a text file. How come when I open it (running the script) it says this? The text file is type RFT

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf2636
\cocoatextscaling0\cocoaplatform0{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;}
{\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;}
{\*\expandedcolortbl;;}
\paperw11900\paperh16840\margl1440\margr1440\vieww11520\viewh8400\viewkind0
\pard\tx566\tx1133\tx1700\tx2267\tx2834\tx3401\tx3968\tx4535\tx5102\tx5669\tx6236\tx6803\pardirnatural\partightenfactor0

\f0\fs24 \cf0

But even with in .txt it gives me this long string. I think it is a formatting problem .
thank you

[jak]

I don't see the script you are talking about but it is normal to find
those strings inside a file of type '.rtf'. RTF documents are not simple
text documents (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format) so if
you want to extract the text contained in these documents you will need
to use a library that can do this
(eg: https://pypi.org/project/striprtf/)
...or write a parser yourself.

[jak]

P.S.
renaming the file extension does not change its content but it is useful
for the system to select the app that knows how to manage it