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[QUOTE="John Machin, post: 3688856"]
What you have is the output of the repr() function, which gives an
unambiguous representation in printable ASCII of the string, with the
extra bonus that it's a valid Python string constant that can be used
in code to produce exactly the same value. What your example means is:
the string contains 's', a backspace, a space, and a backspace,
followed by 'Test!'. Try this at the Python interactive prompt:

What you have looks like very raw keyboard input:
s
oops
space
oops
T
e
etc

Pardon the pedantry, but you don't need to "get rid of any hexadecimal
characters" ... hexadecimal characters are 01234567890ABCDEFabcdef :-)

I guess that what you would like to do is simulate the keyboard
processing of backspaces:

BTW, '\b' means the same as '\x08'; saves keystrokes when testing.

| >>> unbs('abc\b\b\bxyz!\b')
| 'xyz'

HTH,
John
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