remove html tags from text

[Brian Yennie]

FWIW:

http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/

Check out section 6.3, which presents the same regex that Ken  
suggested. Also not the parenthetical statement, which I've come  
across in so many words before. Basically, if you want industrial  
strength HTML tag processing, you should really consider an actual  
parser and not a single expression. For most purposes, RegEx is  
probably fine:

"(Note that parsing HTML or XML with regular expressions is painful.  
Quick-and-dirty patterns will handle common cases, but HTML and XML  
have special cases that will break the obvious regular expression; by  
the time you've written a regular expression that handles all of the  
possible cases, the patterns will be very complicated. Use an HTML or  
XML parser module for such tasks.)"

- Brian