How to remove empty tags in text using regular expressions?

Question

Python

Good day.
There is a task to clean up the text from unnecessary empty type tags <a></a>, <div class="block"></div>in the Python language.
How to create a regular expression correctly?
What is the best library to use for cleaning?
If possible a test working example.
Thanks

Answer 1

tyts

Answer 2

They gave a regular, so you need to put it in re.sub with an empty value of what to change to.
type
re.sub(regexp, '', source)