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Remove Escape Chars from text file in Python
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thisfile.py
#Usage: python thisfile.py "path/to/file.txt" > cleanfile.txt
import re
import sys
with open(sys.argv[1]) as fp:
for line in fp:
newline = re.sub(r'\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[m|K]', "", line)
print newline
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