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

Here is a simple solution that strips HTML tags and decodes HTML entities based on the amazingly fast lxml library:

from lxml import html

def strip_html(s):
    return str(html.fromstring(s).text_content())

strip_html('Ein schöner Text.')  # Output: Ein schöner Text.