need help with re module

Wed Jun 20 12:58:34 EDT 2007

hello

i have that string "<html>hello</a>world<anytag>ok" and i want to 
extract all the text , without html tags , the result should be some 
thing like that : helloworldok

i have tried that :

        from re import findall

        chaine = """<html>hello</a>world<anytag>ok"""

        print findall('[a-zA-z][^(<.*>)].+?[a-zA-Z]',chaine)

       >>> ['html', 'hell', 'worl', 'anyt', 'ag>o']

the result is not correct ! what would be the correct regex to use ?