re.DOTALL

[Hans Nowak]

Irina Szabo wrote:
> I need to remove all tags from  HTML files.
> 
> matchstr = re.compile(r'''<.*?>''',re.DOTALL|re.MULTILINE)
> print matchstr.sub(" ", str )
> 
> The program works well for  tags located on one line,
> but dosn't  delete tags if  the brackets <> are on different lines, like
> 
> <!--
> body {  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: 
> #000000}
> -->

Hmm, it works for me:

 >>> s = """
<!--
body {  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color:
#000000}
-->
"""
 >>> import re
 >>> matchstr = re.compile(r'''<.*?>''',re.DOTALL|re.MULTILINE)
 >>> print matchstr.sub(" ", s)



 >>> print `matchstr.sub(" ", s)`
'\n \n'
 >>>

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