How to remove tags in Python text?

Question

In PHP we have a function called strip_tagsthat remove HTML tags from a given text.

Example:

$text = "meu nome é <strong>Wallace</strong>";

strip_tags($text); // 'meu nome é Wallace'

How can I remove tags from a Python text?

Answer 1

There are several ways, but I don’t think there’s any better way to fulfill this role than Beautifulsoup:

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
>>> bs('<p>hey<span> brrh </span>lolol', 'html.parser').text
'hey brrh lolol'

Note: To install in Python 3.5 use pip:

pip install --upgrade beautifulsoup4

In-depth reading about Beautifulsoup

Answer 2

An example with regex would be so:

import re

text = 'meu nome é <strong>Wallace</strong>'
text = re.sub('<[^>]+?>', '', text)
print(text)

The function re.sub() takes as first parameter a regular expression and searches in the content, defined by the third parameter, snippets that combine with the expression, replacing them with the content defined in the second parameter.