How to input a regex in string.replace?

Question

I need some help on declaring a regex. My inputs are like the following:

this is a paragraph with<[1> in between and then there are cases ..         


        

Answer 1

The easiest way

import re

txt='this is a paragraph with<[1> in between and then there are cases ... where the<[99> number ranges from 1-100.  and there are many other lines in the txt files with<[3> such tags '

out = re.sub("(<[^>]+>)", '', txt)
print out