how to remove <BR> using replace function?

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Duncan Booth  <duncan.booth at suttoncourtenay.org.uk> wrote:
>Although I generally advise against overuse of regular expressions, this is 
>one situation where regular expressions might be useful: [ ... ]
>>>> nobr = re.compile('\W*<br.*?>\W*', re.I)

Agreed (on both counts), but r'\s*<br.*?>\s*' might be better
(consider what happens with "an unfortunate... <br> in the middle"
if you use \W rather than \s).

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