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By David
Updated 7 months ago (04 Feb 2010 at 09:11 PM) recent activity
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In Brief Strips tags from a string, leaving only the text bits.
Language Python
# 's 
 1import re        
 2
 3def striptags(string):
 4
 5	    # Note: this will mess up on tags of the form <img /> so make sure you don't have any of those
 6	    string = re.sub(r'(?sx) <[^>]*?(\s alt \s* = \s* ([\'"]) ([^>]*?) \2) [^>]*? >', r'\3', string) 
 7	    string = re.sub(r'(?sx) </?[^>]*? >', '', string)
 8	    #TODO: there must be some way to not do 2 re's
 9	    string = re.sub('\s{2,}', ' ', string)
10	   
11	    return string

Strips tags from a string, leaving only the text bits.