How do i remove an escape sequence from a string in python?
I want to remove all types of escape sequences from a list of strings. How can I do this? input: Show
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http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-literals asked Nov 13, 2011 at 22:28
1 If you want to strip out some characters you don't like, you can use the translate function to strip them out:
This will strip out all these control characters:
For Python newer than 3.1, the sequence is different:
answered Nov 13, 2011 at 22:45
sarnoldsarnold 100k21 gold badges177 silver badges229 bronze badges 5 Something like this?
Edit: ok, that's not what you want. What you want can't be done in general, because, as @Sven Marnach explained, strings don't actually contain escape sequences. Those are just notation in string literals. You can filter all strings with non-ASCII characters from your list with
answered Nov 13, 2011 at 22:32
Fred FooFred Foo 347k72 gold badges725 silver badges824 bronze badges You could filter out "words" that are not alphanumeric using a list comprehension and
If you wish to filter out numbers, too, use
answered Nov 13, 2011 at 22:34
johnsywebjohnsyweb 132k23 gold badges178 silver badges240 bronze badges 1 This cannot be done, at least at the broad scope you are asking. As others have mentioned, runtime python doesn't know the difference between the something with escape sequences, and something without. Example:
prints answered Nov 13, 2011 at 22:45
Adam WagnerAdam Wagner 14.8k7 gold badges52 silver badges65 bronze badges The following worked for me in Python 3.6:
Output:
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JerilJeril 7,0653 gold badges51 silver badges66 bronze badges 1 I had similar issues while converting from hexadimal to String.This is what finally worked in python Example
royhowie 10.8k14 gold badges49 silver badges67 bronze badges answered Sep 13, 2013 at 6:45
AKVAKV 1711 gold badge4 silver badges12 bronze badges 0 How do I remove an escape character from a string?I think the answer you are looking for is you either: use a raw string r”\n” to represent the escape character or you “escape” (double) the backslash “\\n”. One of the two methods should work.. >>> old = 'jumping beans'. >>> new = s. replace('n', ''). >>> old.. jumping beans.. >>> new.. jumpig beas.. How do you remove the next line from a string in Python?Method 2: Use the strip() Function to Remove a Newline Character From the String in Python. The strip() method in-built function of Python is used to remove all the leading and trailing spaces from a string. Our task can be performed using strip function() in which we check for “\n” as a string in a string.
What is the use of '\ t escape sequence?For example, you can use escape sequences to put such characters as tab, carriage return, and backspace into an output stream.
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Escape sequences.. How do you remove the N at the end of a string in Python?Remove \n From the String in Python Using the str. strip() Method. In order to remove \n from the string using the str. strip() method, we need to pass \n and \t to the method, and it will return the copy of the original string after removing \n and \t from the string.
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