Python Scraping, how to get text from this through BeautifulSoup?

Python Scraping, how to get text from this through BeautifulSoup?

well here is my code to scrape text content from a site.... well it is
working though i am not getting plane text only.... how to handle that
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import mechanize
def getArticle(url):
br = mechanize.Browser()
htmltext = br.open(url).read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(htmltext)
for tag in soup.findAll('span',{'itemprop':'articleBody'}):
print tag.contents
for example when i scrape a site. i get this output
"[u"\nIn Soviet Russia, it's the banks that pay customers' bills.\xa0Or,
at least, one might.",
, u'\n',
, u'\r\nAn interesting case has surfaced in Voronezh, Russia, where a man
is suing a bank for more than 24 million Russian rubles (about $727,000)
in compensation over a handcrafted document that was signed and recognized
by the bank.\xa0',
, u'\n',
, u'\r\nA person who goes by name Dmitry Alexeev (his surname was changed
', by the first Russian outlet to publish this story, u') said that in
2008 he received a letter from ', Tinkoff Credit Systems, u'\xa0in his
mailbox. It was a credit card application form with an agreement contract
enclosed, much like the applications Americans receive daily from various
banks working with ', Visa
how to get plain text only?