strip tags python

Question

i want the following functionality.

input : this is test  bold text  normal text
expected output: this is test normal text

Answer 1

With BeautifulSoup:

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup    
''.join(BeautifulSoup(page).findAll(text=True))

Found at http://www.ghastlyfop.com/blog/2008/12/strip-html-tags-from-string-python.html