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I have a text like this:
text = """<div>
<h1>Title</h1>
<p>A long text........ </p>
<a href=""> a link </a>
</div>"""
using pure Python, with no external module I want to have this:
>>> print remove_tags(text)
Title A long text..... a link
I know I can do it using lxml.html.fromstring(text).text_content() but I need to achieve the same in pure Python using builtin or std library for 2.6+
How can I do that?
5 Answers
Using a regex
Using a regex, you can clean everything inside <> :
import re
# as per recommendation from @freylis, compile once only
CLEANR = re.compile('<.*?>')
def cleanhtml(raw_html):
cleantext = re.sub(CLEANR, '', raw_html)
return cleantext
Some HTML texts can also contain entities that are not enclosed in brackets, such as '&nsbm'. If that is the case, then you might want to write the regex as
CLEANR = re.compile('<.*?>|&([a-z0-9]+|#[0-9]{1,6}|#x[0-9a-f]{1,6});')
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