I would like to remove text from my strings that start with \ ,

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Asked: June 17, 20262026-06-17T18:50:35+00:00 2026-06-17T18:50:35+00:00

I would like to remove text from my strings that start with "\", such as:

 \xf, \africa\87, \ckat\x70, ...

Is there a way of doing this using greedy characters in re.sub?

e.g.:

line = re.sub("[\.*]", "", line)

Thanks!

EDIT:
input example:

" lorem ipsum \xe2\x80\x9csianhill7 lorem ipsum"

output:

" lorem ipsum lorem ipsum"

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-06-17T18:50:37+00:00

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If I understand your question correctly, you want to remove all non-ascii prefixes words from your sentences

You can easily do it through a single pass LC with ordinal match and filter without employing regex

>>> data = " lorem ipsum \xe2\x80\x9csianhill7 lorem ipsum"
>>> ' '.join(e for e in data.split() if 31 < ord(e[0]) < 127)
'lorem ipsum lorem ipsum'

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