title: Remove html formatting "&gt;" from text file using Python csv.reader
body: <p>I have a text file with ; used as the delimiter. The problem is that it has some html text formatting in it such as <code>&amp;gt;</code> Obviously the ; in this causes problems. 
  The text file is large and I don't have a list of these html strings, that is there are many different examples such as <code>$amp;</code>. How can I remove all of them using python.
  The file is a list of names, addresses, phone number and a few more fields. I am looking for the crap.html.remove(textfile) module</p>