Filter out HTML tags and resolve entities in python

Question

Because regular expressions scare me, I\'m trying to find a way to remove all HTML tags and resolve HTML entities from a string in Python.

Answer 1

You might need something more complicated than a regular expression. Web pages often have angle brackets that aren't part of a tag, like this:

 
5 < 7

Stripping the tags with regex will return the string "5 " and treat

 < 7