How to remove tags from a string in python using regular expressions? (NOT in HTML)

Question

I need to remove tags from a string in python.

Title

What is the most effici

Answer 1

If the source text is well-formed XML, you can use the stdlib module ElementTree:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
mystring = """Title"""
element = ET.XML(mystring)
print element.text  # 'Title'

If the source isn't well-formed, BeautifulSoup is a good suggestion. Using regular expressions to parse tags is not a good idea, as several posters have pointed out.