escaping
How can I remove the ANSI escape sequences from a string in python
Here is a snippet that includes my string. 'lsrnx1b[00mx1b[01;31mexamplefile.zipx1b[00mrnx1b[01;31m' The string was returned from an SSH command that I executed. I can’t use the string in its current state because it contains ANSI standardized escape sequences. How can I programmatically remove the escape sequences so that the only part of the string remaining is ‘examplefile.zip’. … Read more
How can I selectively escape percent (%) in Python strings?
I have the following code
How do I .decode(‘string-escape’) in Python 3?
I have some escaped strings that need to be unescaped. I’d like to do this in Python.
How to un-escape a backslash-escaped string?
Suppose I have a string which is a backslash-escaped version of another string. Is there an easy way, in Python, to unescape the string? I could, for example, do:
How to escape os.system() calls?
When using os.system() it’s often necessary to escape filenames and other arguments passed as parameters to commands. How can I do this? Preferably something that would work on multiple operating systems/shells but in particular for bash.
Decode escaped characters in URL
I have a list containing URLs with escaped characters in them. Those characters have been set by urllib2.urlopen when it recovers the html page:
How to escape special characters of a string with single backslashes
I’m trying to escape the characters -]^$*. each with a single backslash .
How do I automatically fix an invalid JSON string?
From the 2gis API I got the following JSON string.
Escape special characters in a Python string
Does Python have a function that I can use to escape special characters in a string?