html parser example

html_parser.py

from html.parser import HTMLParser

class StripQuery(HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self):
        super(StripQuery, self).__init__()
        self.query = ""

    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        pass

    def handle_endtag(self, tag):
        pass

    def handle_data(self, data):
        self.query += data

def strip_query(q):
    f = StripQuery()
    f.feed(q)
    return f.query