pokebase | Python 3 wrapper for Pokéapi v2

This should do it!

Left align with 20 char space

If you need right alignment use >20

You can ignore the numpy engineering there. I did it for convenience. But main idea to use <20 left formatting

You most likely are facing a enconding problem due your original text data having 'special unicode characters' (not really printable).

For example,

\xad are soft-hyphens from unicode utf-8 table conversion. and they are not needed in your case I belive. quoting from here

These are characters that mark places where a word could be split when fitting lines to a page. The idea is that the soft hyphen is invisible if the word doesn't need to be split, but printed the same as a U+2010 normal hyphen if it does.

Since you don't care about rendering this text in a book with nicely flowing text, you're never going to hyphenate anything, so you just want to remove these characters.

\x0c is form feed or page break

\n is new line and in your case I also believe is related to make the text prettier and you also don't care about it.

So a full solution would be, use re.sub (substitute/replace):

1. To remove \xad or \xad\x0c
2. To put ' ' spaces on \x0c and \n