title: Parse Word Document in Python
body: <p>i wanted to convert a word document to text. So i used a script. </p>
  
  <pre><code>import win32com.client 
  
  app = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application') 
  doc = app.Documents.Open(r'C:\Users\SBYSMR10\Desktop\New folder (2)\GENERAL DATA.doc') 
  content=doc.Content.Text
  app.Quit()
  print content
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i have the folllowing result:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/smoWA.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Now i want to convert this text into a list which contains all its items. I used </p>
  
  <pre><code>content = " ".join(content.replace(u"\xa0", " ").strip().split())
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>When i do that, i get :</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/YWOAD.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Its not a list. What is the problem? What is that big dot character?</p>