How to use Cleaner, lxml.html without returning div tag?

lxml.html, python

Solution

lxml expects your html to have a tree structure, ie a single root node. If it does not have one, it adds it.

Problem

I have this code: ``` evil = "<script>malignus script</script><b>bold text</b><i>italic text</i>" cleaner = Cleaner(remove_unknown_tags=False, allow_tags=['p', 'br', 'b'], page_structure=True) print cleaner.clean_html(evil) ``` I expected to get this: ``` <b>bold text</b>italic text ``` But instead I'm getting this: ``` <div><b>bold text</b>italic text</div> ``` Is there an attribute to remove the `div` tag wrapper?

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