There were various files in the source tree that contained low ascii 12
characters throughout.  The list includes:

url: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/py3k
rev: 59539
files:
  _ctypes.c
  cfield.c
  _tkinter.c
  stringobject.c

url: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk
rev: 59539
files:
  stringobject.c

In pep8 there is:
"""
Python accepts the control-L (i.e. ^L) form feed character as
whitespace; Many tools treat these characters as page separators, so you
may use them to separate pages of related sections of your file.
"""

Why do you want to remove them?

I apparently missed this one.  Disregard this issue.