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  Unescaping formatted Terminal text Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> - 2011-06-03 07:21 -0700
    Re: Unescaping formatted Terminal text Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-06-03 17:15 +0200
      Re: Unescaping formatted Terminal text Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> - 2011-06-03 15:16 -0700

#6945 — Unescaping formatted Terminal text

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

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#6951

Gnarlodious wrote:

> 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)

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#6977

Thanks, it looks like the appropriate incantation is:

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

-- Gnarlie

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