using python, Remove HTML tags/formatting from a string [duplicate]

Question

I have a string that contains html markup like links, bold text, etc.

I want to strip all the tags so I just have the raw text.

What's the best way to do this? regex?

Answer 1

If you are going to use regex:

import re def striphtml(data):     p = re.compile(r'<.*?>')     return p.sub('', data)  >>> striphtml('<a href="foo.com" class="bar">I Want This <b>text!</b></a>') 'I Want This text!'