Removing html tags from a text using Regular Expression in python

Question

I\'m trying to look at a html file and remove all the tags from it so that only the text is left but I\'m having a problem with my regex. This is what I have so far.

Answer 1

import re
patjunk = re.compile("<.*?>| |&",re.DOTALL|re.M)
url="http://www.yahoo.com"
def test(url,pat):
    html = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
    return pat.sub("",html)

print test(url,patjunk)