How can I remove the ANSI escape sequences from a string in python

Question

This is my string:

\'ls\\r\\n\\x1b[00m\\x1b[01;31mexamplefile.zip\\x1b[00m\\r\\n\\x1b[01;31m\'

I was using code to retrieve the output from

Answer 1

Function

Based on Martijn Pieters♦'s answer with Jeff's regexp.

def escape_ansi(line):
    ansi_escape = re.compile(r'(?:\x1B[@-_]|[\x80-\x9F])[0-?]*[ -/]*[@-~]')
    return ansi_escape.sub('', line)

Test

def test_remove_ansi_escape_sequence(self):
    line = '\t\u001b[0;35mBlabla\u001b[0m                                  \u001b[0;36m172.18.0.2\u001b[0m'

    escaped_line = escape_ansi(line)

    self.assertEqual(escaped_line, '\tBlabla                                  172.18.0.2')

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Testing

If you want to run it by yourself, use python3 (better unicode support, blablabla). Here is how the test file should be:

import unittest
import re

def escape_ansi(line):
    …

class TestStringMethods(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_remove_ansi_escape_sequence(self):
    …

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()