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Asked: 2026-05-31T01:09:03+00:00

I am looking for a way of putting non-printable characters in a string in

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I am looking for a way of putting non-printable characters in a string in python.

Small background information: I am working with windows command prompt over SSH using paramiko. however paramiko does not ‘parse’/’work with’ the ANSI Terminal Emulation escape sequences. So they are appearing in my output, which I do not want. So I need to strip-off these escape sequences.

These strings/escape sequences however are encoded in the following manner: Esc[Line;ColumnH

And as you can guess. I can’t get the esc-byte value in a string. It will either print as, well, something like 0x1b or 27. Thus useless.

Is there anyone who knows how to solve this? Thanks in advance.

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    You can suppress these escape sequences using regex :

    str_with_ainsi_esc = '\x1b[10;10HSalut'
print re.sub('\x1b\[\d+;\d+H','',str_with_ainsi_esc)
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