In a program I'm writing I have a problem where a bit of text sent over a network arrives at my server. If the person who sent the text made a mistake typing the word and pressed backspace the backspace code is included in the word for example hello is hel\x08lo. The \x08 is the backspace key. How do I convert this string to a normal string (without the \x08). If I print it to screen it appears normal, "hello" but if I store it in a list it appears as hel\x08lo.
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