HTML Parser

[Kragen Sitaker]

In article <mailman.978224102.28797.python-list at python.org>,
Voitenko, Denis <dvoitenko at qode.com> wrote:
>HTMLtags=re.compile('<.*>')

In a string like "x<a>b<c>d", this will match "<a>b<c>", because the .*
matches "a>b<c".  This explains your problem.

Fixing it is harder.
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