how to remove <BR> using replace function?

[Duncan Booth]

Sion Arrowsmith wrote:

> 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).
> 

Yes, I don't really know why I wrote \W when I obviously meant \s. Thanks 
for correcting that.

Even better might be r'(\s*<br.*?>)+\s*' to get multiple runs of <br> tags.