Nós temos:

>>> str
'exit\r\ndrwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1  2000 
\x1b[1;34mbin\x1b[0m\r\ndrwxr-xr-x    3 root     root           
0 Jan  1  2000 \x1b[1;34mlib\x1b[0m\r\ndrwxr-xr-x   10 root     
root            0 Jan  1  1970 \x1b[1;34mlocal\x1b[0m\r\ndrwxr-xr-x    
2 root     root            0 Jan  1  2000 \x1b[1;34msbin\x1b[0m\r\ndrwxr-xr-x    
5 root     root            0 Jan  1  2000 \x1b[1;34mshare\x1b[0m\r\n# exit\r\n'

>>> print str
exit
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1  2000 bin
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root            0 Jan  1  2000 lib
drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 local
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1  2000 sbin
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root            0 Jan  1  2000 share
# exit

Eu quero me livrar de todo o absurdo '\ xblah [0m' usando regexp. eu tentei

re.sub(str, r'(\x.*m)', '')

Mas isso não fez o truque. Alguma ideia?