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

 

[Peter Otten]

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

What you are seeing isn't an ANSI escape sequence, it's actually Char-
Backspace-Char (e. g. "F\bF\U\bU...") which is interpreted as a bold Char by
the "less" utility.

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

pydoc.render_doc(module, renderer=pydoc.plaintext)

or even

pydoc.render_doc(module, renderer=pydoc.html)

 

[Gnarlodious]

Thanks, it looks like the appropriate incantation is:

import pydoc
pydoc.html.docmodule(sys.modules[__name__])

-- Gnarlie