VT100 in Python

[Nobody]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:29:57 -0500, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:

> At a basic level parsing VT100 is quite easy, so you can get rid of
> the VT100 control.  They start with ESC, have other characters in the
> middle then end with a letter (upper or lowercase), so a regexp will
> make short work of them.  Something like r"\x1B[^A-Za-z]*[A-Za-z]"

While this pattern is common, unfortunately there are some exceptions.

Also, "vt100" has become a generic term for "terminal emulation". There
is no guarantee that the OP actually wants to parse vt100 escapes and
nothing else.