In order to extract only text from an HTML website in the most robust way without using regex or urlib or so, use the python library below:

https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text

Usage in terminal is:

Usage: html2text.py [(filename|url) [encoding]]

If you want it to use inside of your python code:

import html2text
 print html2text.html2text("<p>Hello, world.</p>")

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