Sometimes, we want to remove the ANSI escape sequences from a string in Python.
In this article, we’ll look at how to remove the ANSI escape sequences from a string in Python.
How to remove the ANSI escape sequences from a string in Python?
To remove the ANSI escape sequences from a string in Python, we can use the regex’s sub method.
For instance, we write:
import re
ansi_escape = re.compile(r'\x1B(?:[@-Z\\-_]|\[[0-?]*[ -/]*[@-~])')
sometext = 'ls\r\n\x1b[00m\x1b[01;31mexamplefile.zip\x1b[00m\r\n\x1b[01;31m'
s = ansi_escape.sub('', sometext)
print(s)
We call re.compile with a regex string that has the ANSI escape characters.
Then we have the sometext string that has some ANSI escape characters we want to remove.
To do that, we call ansi_escape.sub with an empty string and sometext to return a new string without the escape characters.
Therefore, s is:
ls
examplefile.zip
Conclusion
To remove the ANSI escape sequences from a string in Python, we can use the regex’s sub method.
