Remove xml/html tags from a file

remove_tags.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding=utf-8

import re
import sys

with open(sys.argv[1], 'r') as _in, open(sys.argv[2], 'w') as _out:
    for line in _in:
        line = re.sub('<.[^>]*>', '', line)
        _out.write(line)