Converting HTML to Text

import html2text
import codecs
import os

def html_to_text(file_path):
    """Retruns list of lines for a given file"""
    
    # read the html file
    
    f=codecs.open(file_path, 'r')
    contents = f.read()
    
    # Create html parser object
    h = html2text.HTML2Text()   # Html parser object
    h.ignore_links = True       # Ignoring all the links if there are any
    
    a =h.handle(contents)  # parsing the contents
    a =a.strip('\n\n')     # remove unwanted new line charaters att start and end of the file
    
    return a.split('\n')      # return list of the sentences of the file to save

def main():
    """Main function"""
    
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk('/home/jay/Data_DE_1/'):
        for file in files:
            if file.endswith('.html'):
                topic = root.split(os.path.sep)[-2]          # getting topic 
                subtopic = root.split(os.path.sep)[-1]       # Getting subtopic
                # Call the html function to convert the file
                to_save = html_to_text(os.path.join(root, file))
                
                # Save the file into a new dir
                
                dir_to_save = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'],'html_to_text',topic, subtopic)
                
                try:
                    os.stat(dir_to_save)
                except:
                    os.makedirs(dir_to_save)
                    
                    
                print("Saving the text file to: {}".format(dir_to_save))
                
                with open(dir_to_save+'/'+file+'.txt', 'w') as f:
                    f.write('\n'.join(to_save))
                    

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()