def strip_tags(html):
    """Stripts HTML tags from text.

    Note fields on several Mambu entities come with additional HTML tags
    (they are rich text fields, I guess that's why). Sometimes they are
    useless, so stripping them is a good idea.
    """
    from html.parser import HTMLParser
    class MLStripper(HTMLParser):
        """Aux class for stripping HTML tags.

         fields on several Mambu entities come with additional HTML tags
        (they are rich text fields, I guess that's why). Sometimes they are
        useless, so stripping them is a good idea.
        """
        def __init__(self):
            try:
                super().__init__() # required for python3
            except TypeError as e:
                pass # with python2 raises TypeError
            self.reset()
            self.fed = []
        def handle_data(self, d):
            self.fed.append(d)
        def get_data(self):
            return ''.join(self.fed)

    s = MLStripper()
    s.feed(html.replace("&nbsp;"," "))
    return s.get_data()
Stripts HTML tags from text.

    Note fields on several Mambu entities come with additional HTML tags
    (they are rich text fields, I guess that's why). Sometimes they are
    useless, so stripping them is a good idea.