How to strip color codes used by mIRC users?

Question

I\'m writing a IRC bot in Python using irclib and I\'m trying to log the messages on certain channels.
The issue is that some mIRC users and some Bots write using color

Answer 1

AutoDl-irssi had a very good one written in perl, here it is in python:

def stripMircColorCodes(line) : line = re.sub("\x03\d\d?,\d\d?","",line) line = re.sub("\x03\d\d?","",line) line = re.sub("[\x01-\x1F]","",line) return line