How to remove all the escape sequences from a list of strings?
<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']
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<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="nofollow">http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-literals</a></p>
