On 01-Feb-2008, geoffbache wrote: > I have some marked up text and would like to convert it to plain text, > by simply removing all the tags. Of course I can do it from first > principles but I felt that among all Python's markup tools there must > be something that would do this simply, without having to create an > XML parser etc. > > I've looked around a bit but failed to find anything, any tips? > > (e.g. convert "<B>Today</B> is <U>Friday</U>" to "Today is Friday")
Quick but very dirty way: data=urllib.urlopen('http://google.com').read() data=''.join([x.split('>',1)[-1] for x in data.split('<')]) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list