problem Removing HTML tags in a file using python

[Suji_A]

#!/usr/bin/python
import re
import os, sys, glob
from os import system
from urllib import urlopen
page = urlopen("http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/search3advanced?dbname=tamillex&query=%E0%AE%95&searchdomain=headwords&matchtype=start&display=utf8").read()
myfile = open('testfile.txt', 'w')
myfile.write(page)
myfile = open('testfile.txt', 'r')

#Removing all the HTML tags from the file
myfile = re.sub('<(?!(?:a\s|/a|!))[^>]*>','',page)
print myfile


The above is the python program, when i run that program i got the follwing error


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "lexicon.py", line 3, in <module>
import os, sys, glob
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/glob.py", line 75, in <module>
magic_check = re.compile('[*?[]')
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'compile'
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 38, in apport_excepthook
from apport.packaging_impl import impl as packaging
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
from apport.report import Report
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 14, in <module>
import subprocess, tempfile, os.path, urllib, re, pwd, grp, os, sys
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 404, in <module>
import pickle
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pickle.py", line 165, in <module>
__all__.extend([x for x in dir() if re.match("[A-Z][A-Z0-9_]+$",x)])
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'match'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "lexicon.py", line 3, in <module>
import os, sys, glob
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/glob.py", line 75, in <module>
magic_check = re.compile('[*?[]')
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'compile'



What this error means?:confused:how to solve this?


Thanks in advance

[G|N|]

This is the function i use to remove html:


#!/usr/bin/python
import os, sys, glob
from os import system
from urllib import urlopen
import formatter
import htmllib
import cStringIO

page = urlopen("http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/search3advanced?dbname=tamillex&query=%E0%AE%95&se archdomain=headwords&matchtype=start&display=utf8" ).read()
myfile = open('testfile.txt', 'w')
myfile.write(page)
myfile = open('testfile.txt', 'r')
content = myfile.read() # You forgot this!

#Removing all the HTML tags from the file
#myfile = re.sub('<(?!(?:a\s|/a|!))[^>]*>','',page)
outstream = cStringIO.StringIO()
parser = htmllib.HTMLParser(formatter.AbstractFormatter(for matter.DumbWriter(outstream)))
parser.feed(content)
content = outstream.getvalue()
outstream.close()

print content