How to remove hex characters in Python

Question

I am trying the following

>>> import string
>>> s = 'https://google.com
<0x03><0x03><0x03>'
>>> s.decode('utf8').encode('ascii', errors='ignore')

The expected output is:

'https://google.com'

But the hex characters and new line is not removed.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65937228/how-to-remove-hex-characters-in-python

Answer 1

This code:

import string
import re
s = 'https://google.com
<0x03><0x03><0x03>'
s=re.sub(r'[^ -~].*'.format(string.punctuation), '',s)
print(s)

gives this:

'https://google.com'