Removing tags from a html-file

[Siggy Brentrup]

Thomas Weholt <thomas at bibsyst.no> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to remove all tags from a html-file, so that only the plain-text
> remains. How, if so, can this be done using htmllib.py?

The following should do the trick

from htmllib import HTMLParser
from formatter import AbstractFormatter, DumbWriter

parser = HTMLParser(AbstractFormatter(DumbWriter()))
parser.feed(YOUR_DATA)

Instatiated w/o arguments, DumbWriter writes to stdout.


 - Siggy

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