From ef78287a703c5b47b3f0df5e00c938b54fd57a69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ren=C3=A9=20Stadler?= <mail@renestadler.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:35:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Optimize color stripping function a bit

---
 debug-viewer/GstDebugViewer/Data.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debug-viewer/GstDebugViewer/Data.py b/debug-viewer/GstDebugViewer/Data.py
index 53f7150f56..48cf0608e1 100644
--- a/debug-viewer/GstDebugViewer/Data.py
+++ b/debug-viewer/GstDebugViewer/Data.py
@@ -103,7 +103,11 @@ debug_level_log = DebugLevel ("LOG")
 _escape = re.compile ("\x1b\\[[0-9;]*m")
 def strip_escape (s):
 
-    return _escape.sub ("", s)
+    # FIXME: This can be optimized further!
+
+    while "\x1b" in s:
+        s = _escape.sub ("", s)
+    return s
 
 def default_log_line_regex_ ():