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+#
+# htmlStripper.py
+#
+#  Sample code for stripping HTML markup tags and scripts from 
+#  HTML source files.
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2006, 2016, Paul McGuire
+#
+from contextlib import closing
+import urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error
+from pyparsing import (makeHTMLTags, SkipTo, commonHTMLEntity, replaceHTMLEntity, 
+    htmlComment, anyOpenTag, anyCloseTag, LineEnd, OneOrMore, replaceWith)
+
+scriptOpen,scriptClose = makeHTMLTags("script")
+scriptBody = scriptOpen + SkipTo(scriptClose) + scriptClose
+commonHTMLEntity.setParseAction(replaceHTMLEntity)
+
+# get some HTML
+targetURL = "http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonDecoratorLibrary"
+with closing(urllib.request.urlopen( targetURL )) as targetPage:
+    targetHTML = targetPage.read().decode("UTF-8")
+
+# first pass, strip out tags and translate entities
+firstPass = (htmlComment | scriptBody | commonHTMLEntity | 
+             anyOpenTag | anyCloseTag ).suppress().transformString(targetHTML)
+
+# first pass leaves many blank lines, collapse these down
+repeatedNewlines = LineEnd() + OneOrMore(LineEnd())
+repeatedNewlines.setParseAction(replaceWith("\n\n"))
+secondPass = repeatedNewlines.transformString(firstPass)
+
+print(secondPass)
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