Removing certain tags from html files

[sebzzz at gmail.com]

Hi,

I'm doing a little script with the help of the BeautifulSoup HTML
parser and uTidyLib (HTML Tidy warper for python).

Essentially what it does is fetch all the html files in a given
directory (and it's subdirectories) clean the code with Tidy (removes
deprecated tags, change the output to be xhtml) and than BeautifulSoup
removes a couple of things that I don't want in the files (Because I'm
stripping the files to bare bone, just keeping layout information).

Finally, I want to remove all trace of layout tables (because the new
layout will be in css for positioning). Now, there is tables to layout
things on the page and tables to represent tabular data, but I think
it would be too hard to make a script that finds out the difference.

My question, since I'm quite new to python, is about what tool I
should use to remove the table, tr and td tags, but not what's
enclosed in it. I think BeautifulSoup isn't good for that because it
removes what's enclosed as well.

Is re the good module for that? Basically, if I make an iteration that
scans the text and tries to match every occurrence of a given regular
expression, would it be a good idea?

Now, I'm quite new to the concept of regular expressions, but would it
ressemble something like this: re.compile("<table.*>")?

Thanks for the help.