I am trying to remove

[<span class="street-address">
            510 E Airline Way
           </span>]

and I have used this clean function to remove the one that is in between < >

def clean(val):
 if type(val) is not StringType: val = str(val)
 val = re.sub(r'<.*?>', '',val) 
 val = re.sub("\s+" , " ", val)
 return val.strip()

and it produces [ 510 E Airline Way ]`

i am trying to add within "clean" function to remove the char '[' and ']' and basically i just want to get the "510 E Airline Way".

anyone has any clue what can i add to clean function?

thank you