import re
TEST = """
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"""
strip_tags_re = re.compile(r'?\S([^=]*=(\s*"[^"]*"|\s*\'[^\']*\'|\S*)|[^>])*?>', re.IGNORECASE)
print strip_tags_re.sub('', TEST)