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python extract title tag from url and html using regex

this will extract the title tag as text from the url and the title tag in the following python script

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import re
from urllib.request import urlopen
url = "http://olympus.realpython.org/profiles/dionysus"
page = urlopen(url)
html = page.read().decode("utf-8")
pattern = "<title.*?>.*?</title.*?>"
match_results = re.search(pattern, html, re.IGNORECASE)
title = match_results.group()
title = re.sub("<.*?>", "", title) # Remove HTML tags
print(title)

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