diff --git a/jc/parsers/asciitable_m.py b/jc/parsers/asciitable_m.py
index 5af62101..053c91a5 100644
--- a/jc/parsers/asciitable_m.py
+++ b/jc/parsers/asciitable_m.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ def _process(proc_data: List[Dict]) -> List[Dict]:
 
 
 def _remove_ansi(string: str) -> str:
-    ansi_escape =re.compile(r'(\x9B|\x1B\[)[0-?]*[ -\/]*[@-~]')
+    ansi_escape = re.compile(r'(\x9B|\x1B\[)[0-?]*[ -\/]*[@-~]')
     return ansi_escape.sub('', string)