Strip HTML from strings in Python

Question

from mechanize import Browser
br = Browser()
br.open(\'http://somewebpage\')
html = br.response().readlines()
for line in html:
  print line

When p

Answer 1

If you need to preserve HTML entities (i.e. &), I added "handle_entityref" method to Eloff's answer.

from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

class MLStripper(HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self):
        self.reset()
        self.fed = []
    def handle_data(self, d):
        self.fed.append(d)
    def handle_entityref(self, name):
        self.fed.append('&%s;' % name)
    def get_data(self):
        return ''.join(self.fed)

def html_to_text(html):
    s = MLStripper()
    s.feed(html)
    return s.get_data()