Rendered HTML to plain text using Python

Question

I\'m trying to convert a chunk of HTML text with BeautifulSoup. Here is an example:

    

        Some text
        more text         


        
      

Answer 1

BeautifulSoup is a scraping library, so it's probably not the best choice for doing HTML rendering. If it's not essential to use BeautifulSoup, you should take a look at html2text. For example:

import html2text
html = open("foobar.html").read()
print html2text.html2text(html)

This outputs:

Some text more text even more text

  * list item
  * yet another list item

Some other text

  * list item
  * yet another list item