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

I would use http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/ if you want to include some safe tags.

See the "Sanitizing Tokenizer" section at http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/wiki/UserDocumentation.

Remember to test for vulnerabilities if it's an important service: http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html.