import re

class Utils():

    # remove ANSI escape sequences from string
    @staticmethod
    def remove_ansi(string):
        ansi_escape = re.compile(r'\x1b[^m]*m')
        return ansi_escape.sub('', string)

    # removes ANSI escape sequences from a list of strings
    @staticmethod
    def remove_ansi_from_list(l):
        for index, element in enumerate(l):
            l[index] = Utils.remove_ansi(element)

        return l