RE Module

[tobiah]

Roman wrote:
> I am trying to filter a column in a list of all html tags.
> 
> To do that, I have setup the following statement.
> 
> row[0] = re.sub(r'<.*?>', '', row[0])

The regex will be 'greedy' and match through one tag
all the way to the end of another on the same line.
There are more complete suggestions offered, but
it seems to me that the simple fix here is to not
match through the end of the tag, like this:

"<[^>]*>"

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