code: def strip_tags(s):
      
  
      def handle_match(m):
          name = m.group(1)
          if name in html_entities:
              return unichr(html_entities[name])
          if name[:2] in ("#x", "#X"):
              try:
                  return unichr(int(name[2:], 16))
              except ValueError:
                  return u""
          elif name.startswith("#"):
              try:
                  return unichr(int(name[1:]))
              except ValueError:
                  return u""
          return u""
  
      return _entity_re.sub(handle_match, _striptags_re.sub("", s))
docs: Resolve HTML entities and remove tags from a string.