De-color text - especially useful for R tbl output.

decolor.py

def decolor(x):
    from re import compile
    return compile(r'''
        \x1B  # ESC
    (?:   # 7-bit C1 Fe (except CSI)
        [@-Z\\-_]
    |     # or [ for CSI, followed by a control sequence
        \[
        [0-?]*  # Parameter bytes
        [ -/]*  # Intermediate bytes
        [@-~]   # Final byte
    )
    ''', re.VERBOSE).sub('', x)
  
  
__all__ = ["decolor"]