How to use re.sub in Python?

Question

Text = "<a> text </a> <c> code </c>"                                               

I want to remove <c> code </c> statement in python

output = "<a> text </a>"

Answer 1

You can use re.sub:

>>> import re
>>> text = "<a> text </a> <c> code </c>"
>>> new_text = re.sub(r'<c>.*?</c>', '', text)
>>> new_text
<a> text </a>