Python's equivalent to PHP's strip_tags?

Question

Python\'s equivalent to PHP\'s strip_tags?

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

Answer 1

Using BeautifulSoup

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(htmltext)
''.join([e for e in soup.recursiveChildGenerator() if isinstance(e,unicode)])