[Tutor] regex problem
Michael Powe
michael at trollope.org
Wed Jan 5 20:25:05 CET 2005
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:37:58AM -0000, Alan Gauld wrote:
> > This function removes HTML formatting codes from a text email
> Using regex to remove HTML is usually the wrong approach unless
> you can guarantee the format of the HTML in advance. The
> HTMLparser is usually better and simpler. I think theres an example
> in the module doc of converting HTML to plain text.
Thanks. This is one of those projects I've had in mind for a long
time, decided it was a good way to learn some python. I will look at
the HTMLParser module. But then once I get started on one of these
projects, it has a way of taking over. ;-)
mp
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