Newby: How do I strip HTML tags?

[David LeBlanc]

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David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

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> Subject: Newby: How do I strip HTML tags?
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> I'm mucking around with cgi, and I'm trying to work out a way to
> strip the
> html tags of a string. e.g, I want to convert this...
>
> ><font size = 12><b><big>Really Big String</big></b></font>
>
> to this this ...
>
> >Really Big String
>
> ... and store it as a value.
>
> I worked out a crude, but effective way of doing it (see code
> below), but I
> can't escape the feeling there must be a built in way of doing it
> more. If
> nothing else, I'm sure somebody who knows their regular expressions could
> neaten it up (please?).
>
> def strip_html_tags(it):
> 	left = it[:(len(it)/2)]
> 	right = it[(len(it)/2):]
> 	final = left[left.rfind('>')+1:] + right[:right.find('<')]
> 	return final
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