python 去除html标签函数

def strip_tags(html):
    """
    Python中过滤HTML标签的函数
    >>> str_text=strip_tags("<font color=red>hello</font>")
    >>> print str_text
    hello
    """
    from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
    html = html.strip()
    html = html.strip("\n")
    result = []
    parser = HTMLParser()
    parser.handle_data = result.append
    parser.feed(html)
    parser.close()
    return ''.join(result)