title: Perl within Python?
body: <p>There is a Perl library I would like to access from within Python.
  How can I use it?</p>
  
  <p>FYI, the software is <a href="http://webascorpus.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=FILES&amp;page=FILES_10_Software" rel="noreferrer">NCleaner</a>. I would like to use it from within Python to transform an HTML string into text. (Yes, I know about aaronsw's Python html2text. NCleaner is better, because it removes boiler-plate.)</p>
  
  <p>I don't want to run the Perl program as a script and call it repeatedly, because it has an expensive initial load time and I am calling it many times.</p>