How to remove HTML comments using Regex in Python

Question

I want to remove HTML comments from an html text

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  some text <-- con --> more text 

        

Answer 1

html = re.sub(r"", "", html)

re.sub basically find the matching instance and replace with the second arguments. For this case, matches anything start with . The dot and ? means anything, and the \s and \n add the cases of muti line comment.