import os
os.chdir("C:\\Users\\jborthen\\Desktop")

characterSet="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz,();-<>_ "
with open("data.txt", "r") as myfile:
	inString=myfile.read().replace('\n', '\r\n\n')
	newString = ''.join([char for char in inString if char in characterSet])
myfile.close()

dbOut = open("outputFile.txt", 'w')
dbOut.write(newString)
dbOut.close()