html清除序列,从解析的HTML中删除转义序列

我正在使用Python mechanize模块向网站提交一个简单的查询，然后分解返回的元素以获取我需要的数据。但我似乎无法正确处理传回的转义序列。这是我的代码：

def stripEscape(string): #credit goes to sarnold

delete = ""

i=1

while (i<0x20):

delete += chr(i)

i += 1

t = string.translate(None, delete)

return t

def getHTML(metID):

br = mechanize.Browser()

response = br.open("http://urlgoeshere.com")

br.form = list(br.forms())[0]

br["PROMPT12"] = metID

response = br.submit()

htmlText = response.read()

parseHTML(htmlText)

def parseHTML(htmlText):

htmlText.index('table')

arr = re.split(r'(?\w{2}>)',htmlText) # everything after background tag

logFile = open('Log.txt','wb')

for ele in arr:

ele = stripEscape(ele)

if ele == '':

arr.remove(ele)

for ele in arr:

logFile.write("ele: "+ele+'\n')

if re.match('/table', ele):

logFile.write("END OF TABLE FOUND")

logFile.write("\nele: "+ele+'\n')

break

# other element filters

当我通过交互式shell传递参数时，stripEscape函数工作正常，但网站中的一个数组元素是\r\n\r\n，这会“逃脱”我的过滤器。它会像我这样写入我的日志文件：

ele: normal

ele: stuff

ele:

ele: more

ele: normal

绕过过滤器的结束表标签会导致我的所有其他过滤器变得混乱。有没有更好的方法来处理转义序列？