Best way to convert HTML to plaintext using Python

Question

I'm working on a project that involves converting a large amount of HTML content to plain/text. I have a custom-written module that does the job OK, but I'm wondering if there's some standard tools to help get the job done.

Answer 1

Html2Text seems to be a good option

Answer 2

Two python libraries which do HTML parsing:

• Beautiful Soup
• lxml.html

There are lots of opinions (see the Google) about which of these is better for what.