Clean text with Regex

import re
def preprocessor(text):
    text = re.sub('<[^>]*>', '', text)
    emoticons = re.findall('(?::|;|=)(?:-)?(?:\)|\(|D|P)',
                           text)
    text = (re.sub('[\W]+', ' ', text.lower()) +
            ' '.join(emoticons).replace('-', ''))
    return text

preprocessor("</a>This :) is :( a test :-)!")