Convert hexadecimal characters to ascii

[Mensanator]

On Nov 29, 2:39�pm, Durand <dura... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got this weird problem where in some strings, parts of the string are in hexadecimal, or thats what I think they are. I'm not exactly sure...I get something like this: 's\x08 \x08Test!' from parsing a log file. From what I found on the internet, x08 is the backspace character but I'm still not sure.
> Anyway, I need to clean up this string to get rid of any hexadecimal characters so that it just looks like 'Test!'. Are there any functions to do this?
>
> Thanks =)

Here's one:

>>> a = ''.join([chr(i) for i in xrange(64)])
>>> a
'\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\x08\t\n\x0b\x0c\r\x0e\x0f
\x10\x11\x12\x13\x14\x15\x16\x17\x18\x19\x1a\x1b\x1c\x1d\x1e\x1f !"#$%&
\'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?'
>>> b = ''.join([i for i in a if ord(i)>32])
>>> b
'!"#$%&\'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?'