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def stripTags(s):# this list is neccesarry because chk() would otherwise not know# that intag in stripTags() is ment, and not a new intag variable in chk().	intag = [False]		def chk(c):		if intag[0]:			intag[0] = (c != '>')			return False		elif c == '<':			intag[0] = True			return False		return True		return ''.join(c for c in s if chk(c))