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Strip Html Tags

03.07.2006

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import re
text = re.replace('<.*?>', '', html)

Tags:

html
Python
regex
strip

Comments

Snippets Manager replied on Thu, 2006/03/23 - 2:37am

There are all kinds of terrible things which can go wrong with that method. There's no reason to trust that ">" characters don't appear inside ALT attributes of images, for instance. Does this also assume that the tags are all on the same line?