Python: How to delete a HTML header from a text string?

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using python, Remove HTML tags/formatting from a string

I read in a HTML file:

fi = open("Tree.html", "r")
text = fi.read()

I want to delete the HTML header from the text:

text = re.sub("<head>.*?</head>", "", text)

Why does this not work?

Must read this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 — Fred Larson, Jun 23 '11 at 21:28

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 23 '11 at 20:23

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It looks like you're not catching newlines. You need to add the DOTALL flag.

text = re.sub("<head>.*?</head>", "", text, flags=re.DOTALL)

answered Jun 23 '11 at 20:23

Error message: TypeError: sub() got an unexpected keyword argument 'flags' – Neopugg Jun 23 '11 at 21:32
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What version of python are you using? flags keyword is v2.7+. – John Percival Hackworth Jun 23 '11 at 21:40
I am using Python v2.6. Without "flags=" it works. Thanks! – Neopugg Jun 24 '11 at 13:12

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