$ cat ~/scripts/strip_html.py
#!/usr/bin/python
# coding=utf-8
# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-

import sys, codecs, copy, commands;

sys.stdin  = codecs.getreader('utf-8')(sys.stdin);
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout);
sys.stderr = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stderr);

c = sys.stdin.read(1);

printo = True;

while c: #{
	if c == '<': #{
		printo = False;
		c = sys.stdin.read(1);
		continue;
	elif c == '>': #{
		printo = True;
		c = sys.stdin.read(1);
		continue;
	#}
	if printo == True: #{
		sys.stdout.write(c);
	#}
	c = sys.stdin.read(1);
#}