html 2 plain text

[robin]

hi,
i remember seeing this simple python function which would take raw html
and output the content (body?) of the page as plain text (no <..> tags
etc)
i have been looking at htmllib and htmlparser but this all seems to
complicated for what i'm looking for. i just need the main text in the
body of some arbitrary webbpage to then do some natural-language
processing with it...
thanks for pointing me to some helpful resources!

robin