Question

I have a strong that I scraped from an XML file and It contains some HTML formatting tags

(<b>, <i>, etc)

Is there a quick and easy way to remove all of these tags from the text?

I tried

str = str.replace("<b>","")

and applied it several times to other tags, but that doesn’t work

Answer 1

Using lxml.html:

lxml.html.fromstring(s).text_content()

This strips all tags and converts all entities to their corresponding characters.