Newby: How do I strip HTML tags?

[Andy McKay]

> This is a quite straight forward function: 

This of course assumes that there are no "<" or ">" anywhere else in
attributes etc...

I would recommend using HTML Parser to get an accurate representation, or
even stripogram which is pretty good (note it doesnt need Zope at all),
although the html2text isnt perfect:

>>> from stripogram import html2text
>>> html2text("<b>This is a <i>test</i></b>")
'This is a test'
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  Andy McKay
  Merlin Technologies