[David Abrahams]
> N^HNA^HAM^HME^HE
> docstring_ext
Note that pydoc contains this handy <wink> function:
def plain(text):
"""Remove boldface formatting from text."""
return re.sub('.\b', '', text)
Note that it's important that the regexp *not* be a raw-string there (it
will do somthing quite amazingly different if it is).