Check for uncommon characters in a specified input file. Usage: weirdcheck.py <inputfilename.txt>

weirdcheck.py

import sys

print "Reading from: %s" % sys.argv[1]
print "----------------------------------"

inf = open(sys.argv[1],'r')

for (line_no, l) in enumerate(inf.readlines()):
    for (pos_no, c) in enumerate(l):
        if ord(c) > 128:
            print "%s found at line number: %s, position: %s" % (repr(c), line_no+1, pos_no+1)
            print l
            print (" "*pos_no + "^")

print "-------------------------------------"
print "Done."