You may find BeautifulSoup (http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/)
useful.
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
b = BeautifulSoup()
b.feed(file('test.html').read())
print b.first('title').renderContents()
HTH
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