Right now I am trying to read and parse a file using Python 2. The creator of the file typed a bunch of lines in the terminal, with (Ctrl A)s within each line, and copied those lines into a text file. So the lines in the file look like "(something)^A(something)". When I use the readlines() function in python to read the file, those "^A" strings cannot be recognized. Right now I am trying to read and parse a file