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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def markdown_to_text(body):
 """Converts markdown to text. Args: body: markdown (or plaintext, or maybe HTML) input Returns: Plaintext with all tags and frills removed """

    # Turn our input into HTML
    md = markdown.markdown(body, extensions=[
        'markdown.extensions.extra'
    ])

    # Safely parse HTML so that we don't have to parse it ourselves
    soup = BeautifulSoup(md, 'html.parser')

    # Return just the text of the parsed HTML
    return soup.get_text()