Python nltk.clean_html not implemented

Question

I have been trying to use

myNews=urlopen(url).read()    
myNews=nltk.clean_html(myNews)

I get the following error:

File \"/usr/loca

Answer 1

if your code is

raw = nltk.clean_html(html) 
tokens = nltk.word_tokenize(raw)

You can use

raw = BeautifulSoup(html).get_text()
tokens = nltk.word_tokenize(raw)

instead, see other answers for reason.