正则表达式的答案非常脆弱。这里是证明（和BeautifulSoup的一个例子）。

The regex answer is extremely fragile. Here's proof (and a working BeautifulSoup example).

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

# Here's your HTML
html = '<p data="5" size="4">item1</p><p size="4">item2</p><p size="4">item3</p>'

# Here's some simple HTML that breaks your accepted 
# answer, but doesn't break BeautifulSoup.
# For each example, the regex will ignore the first <p> tag.
html2 = '<p size="4" data="5">item1</p><p size="4">item2</p><p size="4">item3</p>'
html3 = '<p data="5" size="4" >item1</p><p size="4">item2</p><p size="4">item3</p>'
html4 = '<p data="5" size="12">item1</p><p size="4">item2</p><p size="4">item3</p>'

# This BeautifulSoup code works for all the examples.
paragraphs = BeautifulSoup(html).findAll('p')
items = [''.join(p.findAll(text=True)) for p in paragraphs]

使用BeautifulSoup。

Use BeautifulSoup.