[Tutor] how to remove html ags

[Kent Johnson]

anil maran wrote:
> <p><div class="quote">Human nature is not a machin... 
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> for example in the above stirng
>
> i want to remove <p>
> and <div class="quote">
Try one of these:
http://www.oluyede.org/blog/2006/02/13/html-stripper/
http://www.aminus.org/rbre/python/cleanhtml.py
>
> i tried
>
> str = str.replace('(.*)','')
>
> it doesnt work
because it looks for a literal "(.*)" in the string and replaces it with 
an empty string. Since "(.*)" doesn't appear, nothing is replaced.

Kent
> thanks
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