Python how to remove escape characters from a string

Question

I have a string like below, and I want to remove all \x06 characters from the string in Python.

Ex:

s = 'test\x06\x06\x06\x06' s1 = 'test2\x04\x04\x04\x04' print(literal_eval("'%s'" % s))

output: test♠♠♠♠

I just need String test and remove all \xXX.

Also, string or bytes? Py 2 or py 3? What have you tried? What research have you done? — Mad Physicist
– Mad Physicist, Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 5:58
Possible duplicate of How to remove all the escape sequences from a list of strings? — Sociopath
– Sociopath, Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 6:00
@davedwards I have tried this and it returns test♠♠♠♠. I just need string 'test' — ashkus
– ashkus, Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 6:04
@ashkus you're right, how about this: import re; re.sub('[^A-Za-z0-9]+', '', s) — chickity china chinese chicken
– chickity china chinese chicken, Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 6:18

chickity china chinese chicken · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-09 06:21:32Z

Maybe the regex module is the way to go

>>> s = 'test\x06\x06\x06\x06' >>> s1 = 'test2\x04\x04\x04\x04' >>> import re >>> re.sub('[^A-Za-z0-9]+', '', s) 'test' >>> re.sub('[^A-Za-z0-9]+', '', s1) 'test2'

FHTMitchell · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-09 06:14:13Z

If you want to remove all \xXX characters (non-printable ascii characters) the best way is probably like so

import string def remove_non_printable(s): return ''.join(c for c in s if c not in string.printable)

Note this won't work with any non-ascii printable characters (like é, which will be removed).

Neal Titus Thomas · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-28 05:39:17Z

0

This should do it

import re #Import regular expressions s = 'test\x06\x06\x06\x06' #Input s s1 = 'test2\x04\x04\x04\x04' #Input s1 print(re.sub('\x06','',s)) #remove all \x06 from s print(re.sub('\x04','',s1)) #remove all \x04 from s1

edited Jun 28, 2019 at 5:39

answered Aug 9, 2018 at 6:20

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2 Comments

FHTMitchell Over a year ago

regular expressions are overkill for this method. Just use str.replace

Sergey Makhonin Over a year ago

i believe that in the second print statement is should be 's1', not s

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