Function remove_ansi_escape_sequences

tests/helpers.py:85–91

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def remove_ansi_escape_sequences(text):
    # http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14693701/how-can-i-remove-the-ansi-escape-sequences-from-a-string-in-python
    # remove all ansi escape sequences
    #return regex.sub(r'(\x9b|\x1b\[)[0-?]*[ -\/]*[@-~]|[ ]*\r', '', text)
    text = regex.sub(r'(\x9b|\x1b\[)[0-?]*[ -\/]*[@-~]', '', text)
    text = regex.sub(r'[ \r]*\n', '\n', text)  # also clean up the line endings
    return text

# helper for running sut as subprocess within pty
# does two things