anil maran wrote: > <p><div class="quote">Human nature is not a machin... > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/Caterinanet?m=1228> > > for example in the above stirng > > i want to remove <p> > and <div class="quote"> Try one of these: http://www.oluyede.org/blog/2006/02/13/html-stripper/ http://www.aminus.org/rbre/python/cleanhtml.py > > i tried > > str = str.replace('(.*)','') > > it doesnt work because it looks for a literal "(.*)" in the string and replaces it with an empty string. Since "(.*)" doesn't appear, nothing is replaced.
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