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

I even had to add '\x0f', whatever use it has

regex = re.compile("\x0f|\x1f|\x02|\x03(?:\d{1,2}(?:,\d{1,2})?)?", re.UNICODE)
regex.sub('', msg)