import re


def striphtml(text):
    """
	remove html formating (e.g. <b> <\b>, <a </a>) from a string

	>>> striphtml('Hi! <b> Important <\b>  click here <a> link </a>')
	'Hi!  Important   click here  link '

	"""
    p = re.compile(r'<.*?>')
    return p.sub('', text)