What's the best way to write this regular expression?

[John Salerno]

On Tuesday, March 6, 2012 5:05:39 PM UTC-6, John Salerno wrote:
> > Anything that allows me NOT to use REs is welcome news, so I look forward to learning about something new! :)
> 
> I should ask though...are there alternatives already bundled with Python that I could use? Now that you mention it, I remember something called HTMLParser (or something like that) and I have no idea why I never looked into that before I messed with REs.
> 
> Thanks.

Also, I just noticed Beautiful Soup, which seems appropriate. I suppose any will do, but knowing the pros and cons would help with a decision.