Is there a function to remove escape characters from a string ?

[James Stroud]

Stef Mientki wrote:
> hello,
> 
> Is there a function to remove escape characters from a string ?
> (preferable all escape characters except "\n").
> 
> thanks,
> Stef


import string

WANTED = string.printable[:-5] + "\n"

def descape(s, w=WANTED):
   return "".join(c for c in s if c in w)


James


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