gistfile1.txt

#################################
FIRST VARIATION (only removes the first tag)
#################################
def remove_tags(html):
    start_tag = '>'
    end_tag = '</'
    find_stag = html.find(start_tag)
    find_etag = html.find(end_tag)
    if start_tag == -1:
        return None
    find_stag = html.find(start_tag)
    find_etag = html.find(end_tag)
    content = html[find_stag + 1:find_etag]
    derp = []
    splitted=(content.split())
    return splitted


#################################
SECOND VARIATION (still need to separate the capitalised words)
#################################
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

class MLStripper(HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self):
        self.reset()
        self.fed = []
    def handle_data(self, d):
        self.fed.append(d)
    def get_data(self):
        return ''.join(self.fed)

def remove_tags(html):
    s = MLStripper()
    s.feed(html)
    return s.get_data().split()

##### TEST CASES

print remove_tags('''<h1>Title</h1><p>This is a
                    <a href="http://www.udacity.com">link</a>.<p>''')
#>>> ['Title','This','is','a','link','.']

print remove_tags('''<table cellpadding='3'>
                     <tr><td>Hello</td><td>World!</td></tr>
                     </table>''')
#>>> ['Hello','World!']

print remove_tags("<hello><goodbye>")
#>>> []