Processing a HTML file using Python

Question

I wanted to remove all the tags in HTML file. For that I used re module of python. For example, consider the line

Hello World!

.I want to retain

Answer 1

Use a parser, either lxml or BeautifulSoup:

import lxml.html
print lxml.html.fromstring(mystring).text_content()

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