clean html text

[andrewjtdunn]

We sometimes have html characters in our text fields. Rather than writing specific regex expressions, perhaps there is a package that does this for us? Issue appears in comments and in summaries from the federal register

[andrewjtdunn]

initial googling:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9662346/python-code-to-remove-html-tags-from-a-string

https://lxml.de/elementsoup.html

[jgibson517]

Django has a strip_tags functions that removes things like <\br> - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/utils/#django.utils.html.strip_tags

And python has a html.unescape that removes the other entities: https://docs.python.org/3/library/html.html