Question

I have some strings with all this kind of characters in it which also has normal letters ,
and i want to transform all the “wired” characters in they’re normal representation .
So my question is :
Is there a Pythonic way of doing this ?

I have a string for example this one :

Mymethods defined here:
 |  
 |  __add__(...)
 |      x.__add__(y) <==> x+y

This somehow has this output :

Mymethods defined here:\n 
 |  \n 
 |  _\x08__\x08_a\x08ad\x08dd\x08d_\x08__\x08_(...)\n 
 |      x.__add__(y) <==> x+y

Answer 1

\x08 is the character representation for backspace.

So you should do a regexp replace

s/.\\x08//

That will remove all the \x08.

The \n is OK because it represents the end of the line.