I am trying to scrape a web page containing the names of companies. The names are between  tags. The format is:  &lt;option value="15589" id="optExhibitor15589" title="N571  Company One, Inc"&gt;N571 Company One, Inc&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="16441" id="optExhibitor16441" title="N873  Company Two"&gt;Company Two&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="14863" id="optExhibitor14863" title="N219  Company Three"&gt;N219 Company Three&lt;/option&gt;   I've tried breaking the file into a list of lines using .readline() but I cannot figure out how to extract the text between thetitle= and "&gt;.  I have hundreds of these names I want to extract and I want to produce a list of the company names.
I'd like to extract the text from an HTML file using Python.  I want essentially the same output I would get if I copied the text from a browser and pasted it into notepad.    I'd like something more robust than using regular expressions that may fail on poorly formed HTML.  I've seen many people recommend Beautiful Soup, but I've had a few problems using it.  For one, it picked up unwanted text, such as JavaScript source.  Also, it did not interpret HTML entities.  For example, I would expect &amp;#39; in HTML source to be converted to an apostrophe in text, just as if I'd pasted the browser content into notepad.  Update html2text looks promising. It handles HTML entities correctly and ignores JavaScript.  However, it does not exactly produce plain text; it produces markdown that would then have to be turned into plain text. It comes with no examples or documentation, but the code looks clean.    Related questions:
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