removing terminal control characters

[Aaron Kunkle]

i'm trying to display output from a linux command line program and i'm
getting a lot of junk.
i was told that pulling out escape sequences like this regex: \033[^;]*;
would do it but that doesnt catch them all. i'm seeing the little box
characters for instance.

the only way i've found thus far is this:

building the regex object:
regex = re.compile(r'\0 33[^;]*;')
then passing each line of output through this:
line = regex.sub("",li ne)
junk = line.translate( identity, string.printabl e)
line = line.translate( identity, junk)

i know there must be a better way!
is there a way to get a non-printable group of characters to search
for?

thanks,
aaron kunkle

[yaipa h.]

Aaron,

Have a look at "Text Processing in Python," by David Mertz.
Wonderful book, just bought it from Amazon.com

Here is a link to the soft copy.
http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/

Cheers,

--Alan

Aaron Kunkle <aa***@brokenso ciety.com> wrote in message news:<ma******* *************** ************@py thon.org>...

i'm trying to display output from a linux command line program and i'm
getting a lot of junk.
i was told that pulling out escape sequences like this regex: \033[^;]*;
would do it but that doesnt catch them all. i'm seeing the little box
characters for instance.

the only way i've found thus far is this:

building the regex object:
regex = re.compile(r'\0 33[^;]*;')
then passing each line of output through this:
line = regex.sub("",li ne)
junk = line.translate( identity, string.printabl e)
line = line.translate( identity, junk)

i know there must be a better way!
is there a way to get a non-printable group of characters to search
for?

thanks,
aaron kunkle

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