How to get plain text inside any XML tag. This code is explained at https://pgbase.blogspot.in/2017/08/how-to-get-plain-text-inside-any-xml.html

get_plaintext.py

try:
  import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
except ImportError:
  import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

def get_plaintext(elem):
  inner_plaintext = ''
  text_iterator = elem.itertext()
  for text in text_iterator:
    inner_plaintext = inner_plaintext + text
  return inner_plaintext

xml_string = "<tag>Some <a>example</a> text</tag>"
root = ET.fromstring(xml_string)
print get_plaintext(root)