title: How to remove all the escape sequences from a list of strings?
body: <p>I want to remove all types of escape sequences from a list of strings. How can I do this?
  input:</p>
  
  <pre><code>['william', 'short', '\x80', 'twitter', '\xaa', '\xe2', 'video', 'guy', 'ray']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>['william', 'short', 'twitter', 'video', 'guy', 'ray']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-literals" rel="noreferrer">http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-literals</a></p>