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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 strip_tags(s):
 """Resolve HTML entities and remove tags from a string."""


    def handle_match(m):
        name = m.group(1)
        if name in html_entities:
            return unichr(html_entities[name])
        if name[:2] in ("#x", "#X"):
            try:
                return unichr(int(name[2:], 16))
            except ValueError:
                return u""
        elif name.startswith("#"):
            try:
                return unichr(int(name[1:]))
            except ValueError:
                return u""
        return u""

    return _entity_re.sub(handle_match, _striptags_re.sub("", s))