Removing html elements from events description.

src/event.py

@@ -7,27 +7,39 @@
 from dateutil import parser
 
 
+# import regular expression module
+import re
+
+
+
 class Event:
     """Event records all the data from an event, and has methods to generate the
     message from an event
     """
 
     # pylint: disable=too-many-instance-attributes
     # Events have lots of data that we need to save together
+
+
 
     def __init__(
         self, title, group_name, description, location, time, url, status, uuid
     ):
         # pylint: disable=too-many-arguments
         self.title = title
         self.group_name = group_name
-        self.description = description
+        self.description = self.remove_html(description)
         self.location = location
         self.time = time
         self.url = url
         self.status = status
         self.uuid = uuid
 
+    def remove_html(self, string):
+        regex = re.compile(r'<[^>]+>')
+        return regex.sub('', string)
+
+
     # creates a struct of event information used to compose different formats of the event message
     @classmethod
     def from_event_json(cls, event_json):