HTML to Text renderer

[Marc Christiansen]

Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> Robert Brewer wrote:
>> To clarify: you don't want the HTML tags merely stripped; you want to
>> replace e.g. br with a line break and p with, say, two line breaks?
> 
> Right.  And word wrapping too.  Some other tags would also be 
> interesting: <blockquote>, <pre>, <hr>, <table>,  , and something 
> to control alignment (e.g., <p align="">).

Have a look at htmllib.HTMLParser and formatter in the standard Python
lib (but also look at the source of htmllib). Maybe they provide what
you need.

HTH
  Marc