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Strip all HTML from string using BeautifulSoup
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gistfile1.py
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
body = "<p>Dear Everyone,</p><p>This is a test</p><h1>Test Complete</h1>"
plain_text = ' '.join(BeautifulSoup(body).findAll(text=True))
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