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Created October 5, 2012 20:54
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html2txt.py
import nltk, glob
for filename in glob.glob( '*.htm*' ):
filein = open(filename)
html = filein.read()
raw = nltk.clean_html(html)
fileout = open(filename.rstrip('.html')+'.txt', 'w+')
fileout.write(raw)
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