Under Python 2.6, commands.getoutput returns text type str containing ANSI Terminal formatting hex characters:
"\x1b[1;31mSun : \x1b[1;36m114.902\x1b[0m - 0\xf800' (-)\x1b[1;33m I have a system for parsing out the relevant parts and I prefer to keep using that system. Under Python 3, subprocess.check_output returns a bytestring that doesn't parse. Since the CLI program (written in the 1990's) will never send Unicode, is there a way to downconvert the bytestring into type str so as to emulate Py2.6 behavior? Or alternatively, is there a whizbang Py3 method to parse out strings delimited by hex? I tried several tricks but it is all beyond my skills. Thanks. -- Gnarlie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
