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Strip HTML tags using BeautifulSoup
def strip(untrusted_html):
"""Strips out all tags from untrusted_html, leaving only text.
Converts XML entities to Unicode characters. This is desirable because it
reduces the likelihood that a filter further down the text processing chain
will double-encode the XML entities."""
soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(untrusted_html, convertEntities=BeautifulStoneSoup.ALL_ENTITIES)
safe_html = ''.join(soup.findAll(text=True))
return safe_html
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