Question

I dont know much about html…
How do you remove just text from the page?
For example if the html page reads as:

<meta name="title" content="How can I make money at home online? No gimmacks please? - Yahoo! Answers">
<title>How can I make money at home online? No gimmicks please? - Yahoo! Answers</title>

I just want to extract this.

How can I make money at home online? No gimmicks please? - Yahoo! Answers

I am using re function:

def striphtml(data):
  p = re.compile(r'<.*?>')
  return p.sub(' ',data)

but still it’s not doing what I intend it to do..?

The above function is called as:

for lines in filehandle.readlines():

        #k = str(section[6].strip())
        myFile.write(lines)

        lines = striphtml(lines)
        content.append(lines)

Answer 1

Don’t use Regular expressions for HTML/XML parsing. Try http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ instead.

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup('Your resource<title>hi</title>')
soup.title.string # Your title string.