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Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook - Second Edition
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Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook - Second Edition

by Jacob Perkins
August 2014
Beginner to intermediate
304 pages
7h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Cleaning and stripping HTML

Cleaning up text is one of the unfortunate but entirely necessary aspects of text processing. When it comes to parsing HTML, you probably don't want to deal with any embedded JavaScript or CSS, and are only interested in the tags and text.

Getting ready

You'll need to install lxml. See the previous recipe or http://lxml.de/installation.html for installation instructions.

How to do it...

We can use the clean_html() function in the lxml.html.clean module to remove unnecessary HTML tags and embedded JavaScript from an HTML string:

>>> import lxml.html.clean
>>> lxml.html.clean.clean_html('<html><head></head><body onload=loadfunc()>my text</body></html>')
'<div><body>my text</body></div>'

The result is much cleaner and easier ...

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ISBN: 9781782167853