Removing all div tags from HTML string

Question

I am trying to strip all divs. Input: ```

111

bla

333

bla2

``` Desired Output: ```

111

333

``` I tried this but it isn't working: ``` release_content = re.sub("/

.*<\/div>/s", "", release_content) ```

Accepted Answer

Do not use regex for this problem. Use an html parser. Here is a solution in python with BeautifulSoup:

```
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

with open('Path/to/file', 'r') as content_file:
    content = content_file.read()

soup = BeautifulSoup(content)
[div.extract() for div in soup.findAll('div')]

with open('Path/to/file.modified', 'w') as output_file:
    output_file.write(str(soup))
```

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