pyparsing moduleto remove unwanted characters

[paulb]

Hi,
  Can I use pyparsing to remove unwanted characters from a string.  For example I have an xml message that I need to parse with characters like u'\u25c4'.  I cant seem to print these characters so can I remove these characters?  Use something other than pyparse?

[Paul McGuire]

You could, but I should think that this would be far simpler in straight Python, something like:

    infile = open(htmlsource)
    src = list(infile.read())
    filtered =
    open(outfile,"w").write("".join(filtered))

No?