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

If you want to strip all HTML tags the easiest way I found is using BeautifulSoup:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup  # Or from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

def stripHtmlTags(htmlTxt):
    if htmlTxt is None:
            return None
        else:
            return ''.join(BeautifulSoup(htmlTxt).findAll(text=True)) 

I tried the code of the accepted answer but I was getting "RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded", which didn't happen with the above block of code.