Regex - Remove HTML Tags

Character	Meaning
<	Matches character “<”
[^<]	Negated set - matches any character that is not in the set.
+	Matches one or more of the preceding token
?	If used immediately after any of the quantifiers *, +, ?, or {}, makes the quantifier non-greedy (matching the minimum number of times).

# Replace all html tags with blank from surveyAnswer column in dataframe df.
# regex=True is the default so you can choose not to explicitly specify it.
df["surveyAnswer"] = df["surveyAnswer"].str.replace('<[^<]+?>','',regex=True)