Remove HTML tags + entities from string in Python +Django

utils.py

import re
from django.utils.html import strip_tags

def parse_text(text, patterns=None):
    """
    delete all HTML tags and entities
    :param text (str): given text
    :param patterns (dict): patterns for re.sub
    :return str: final text
    
    usage like:
    parse_text('<div class="super"><p>Hello&ldquo;&rdquo;!&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>&lsquo;</div>')
    >>> Hello!
    """
    base_patterns = {
        '&[rl]dquo;': '',
        '&[rl]squo;': '',
        '&nbsp;': ''
    }

    patterns = patterns or base_patterns

    final_text = strip_tags(text)
    for pattern, repl in patterns.items():
        final_text = re.sub(pattern, repl, final_text)
    return final_text