How to prevent BeautifulSoup from self-closing things that look like tags but aren't?

Figured this out using html5lib based on this answer as a starting point. Here's a version of what I ended up with that does the same thing as the BeautifulSoup code I started with above, except works properly for the integer case I described.

You are doing it wrong (tm). BeatifulSoup is not meant to be used like that. Take a look at this instead: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52281-strip-tags-and-javascript-from-html-page-leaving-o/ This recipe removes invalid tags and you sound like you want to keep them in but escaped.

Should be a pretty easy modification.

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