Unescaping formatted Terminal text

[Gnarlodious]

This may be happening because I am using Python 3.2 which includes
"curses" to format output. When running:

pydoc.render_doc(sys.modules[__name__])

in Terminal I see FUNCTIONS

when the same output goes to HTTP I see FFUUNNCCTTIIOONNSS

Is there an easy way to strip ANSI escaped characters from output for
CGI rendering?

-- Gnarlodious