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

# This is a regex solution.
import re
def removeHtml(html):
  if not html: return html
  # Remove comments first
  innerText = re.compile('').sub('',html)
  while innerText.find('>')>=0: # Loop through nested Tags
    text = re.compile('<[^<>]+?>').sub('',innerText)
    if text == innerText:
      break
    innerText = text

  return innerText.strip()