From 8b6ef5579f2b2f80a9159258b8bc479381af8ad9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damien Elmes <git@ichi2.net>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 16:27:46 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] remove comments when stripping

gets rid of unwanted metadata from ms word pastes
---
 anki/utils.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/anki/utils.py b/anki/utils.py
index 2dcb8f4aa..e91678563 100644
--- a/anki/utils.py
+++ b/anki/utils.py
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ def fmtFloat(float_value, point=1):
 
 # HTML
 ##############################################################################
+reComment = re.compile("(?s)<!--.*?-->")
 reStyle = re.compile("(?si)<style.*?>.*?</style>")
 reScript = re.compile("(?si)<script.*?>.*?</script>")
 reTag = re.compile("(?s)<.*?>")
@@ -132,6 +133,7 @@ reEnts = re.compile("&#?\w+;")
 reMedia = re.compile("(?i)<img[^>]+src=[\"']?([^\"'>]+)[\"']?[^>]*>")
 
 def stripHTML(s):
+    s = reComment.sub("", s)
     s = reStyle.sub("", s)
     s = reScript.sub("", s)
     s = reTag.sub("", s)