i have a string in which a word is like this "#<i><b>when</b></i>". i want only word without any tag. when in striped "#" word became "<i><b>when</b></i>". but when i striped "<i>" word became like "b>when"<b>when</b>"?
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vpit3833
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See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37486/filter-out-html-tags-and-resolve-entities-in-python – GreenMatt Nov 20 '10 at 05:52
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And http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2295942/pythons-equivalent-to-phps-strip-tags – mpen Nov 20 '10 at 06:02
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Slice it.
>>> '#<i><b>when</b></i>'[4:-4]
'<b>when</b>'
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thanks but i want to keep record for tag that i removed... is any method or function which remove only tag – Lalit Chattar Nov 20 '10 at 05:37
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@Gautam: Slicing a string doesn't modify the string. If you assign the result of the slice to a variable, you'll keep the original tag and you'll have the word too. – Zeke Nov 20 '10 at 05:47
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if s = "#when", then s2 = s[:5] + s[8:19] + s[23:] should give what (I think) you want for this example. – GreenMatt Nov 20 '10 at 05:50
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I see 2 problems with this solution... (1) he said *without any tag*... I assume that includes ``. And (2) It only works on this particular example.. although, of course, who knows what he's trying to do. – mpen Nov 20 '10 at 06:04
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Use regular expressions.
>>> import re
>>> s='#<i><b>when</b></i>'
>>> wordPattern = re.compile(r'\>(\w+)\<')
>>> wordPattern.search(s).groups()
('when',)
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@Alex: Yeah, I read http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 and I only suggest it for this specific instance, not for general HTML parsing. – Zeke Nov 20 '10 at 06:03
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