code: def strip_tags(html):
      
      from html.parser import HTMLParser
      class MLStripper(HTMLParser):
          """Aux class for stripping HTML tags.
  
           fields on several Mambu entities come with additional HTML tags
          (they are rich text fields, I guess that's why). Sometimes they are
          useless, so stripping them is a good idea.
          """
          def __init__(self):
              try:
                  super().__init__() # required for python3
              except TypeError as e:
                  pass # with python2 raises TypeError
              self.reset()
              self.fed = []
          def handle_data(self, d):
              self.fed.append(d)
          def get_data(self):
              return ''.join(self.fed)
  
      s = MLStripper()
      s.feed(html.replace("&nbsp;"," "))
      return s.get_data()
docs: Stripts HTML tags from text.
  
      Note fields on several Mambu entities come with additional HTML tags
      (they are rich text fields, I guess that's why). Sometimes they are
      useless, so stripping them is a good idea.