Question

I want to strip out <p> and </p> from a string (lets say s).

Right now I am doing this :

s.strip('"<p>""</p>"')

I am not really sure if what I am doing is correct, but this has been effective enough with most of the strings that I have used.

Except, I still get the following string : Here goes..</p>

Is there any other effective way to strip? It does not need to fast or efficient. I need something effective that get’s the work done.

Test Case

Let’s say:
s="<p>Here goes..</p>"

After performing the necessary operations on s, print s should give :
Here goes..

Answer 1

Assuming you’re not trying to sanitise XML/HTML the following will work:

s = s.replace('<p>', '').replace('</p>', '')