Re: Scrapy/XPath help

2012-12-25 Thread donarb
On Friday, December 21, 2012 1:58:47 PM UTC-8, Always Learning wrote: The errors I get are File C:\python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy-0.16.3-py2.7.egg\scrapy\selector\lxmlsel.py, line 47, in select raise ValueError(Invalid XPath: %s % xpath) exceptions.ValueError: Invalid XPath:

Scrapy/XPath help

2012-12-21 Thread Always Learning
Hello all. I'm new to Python, but have been playing around with it for a few weeks now, following tutorials, etc. I've spun off on my own and am trying to do some basic web scraping. I've used Firebug/View XPath in Firefox for some help with the XPaths, however, I still am receiving errors when

Re: Scrapy/XPath help

2012-12-21 Thread Grant Rettke
You might have better luck if you share the python make, version, os, error message, and some unit tests demonstrating what you expect. On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Always Learning cbrown...@ou.edu wrote: Hello all. I'm new to Python, but have been playing around with it for a few weeks

Re: Scrapy/XPath help

2012-12-21 Thread Always Learning
Sorry about that. I'm using Python 2.7.3, 32 bit one Windows 7. The errors I get are File C:\python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy-0.16.3-py2.7.egg\scrapy\selector\lxmlsel.py, line 47, in select raise ValueError(Invalid XPath: %s % xpath) exceptions.ValueError: Invalid XPath:

Re: Scrapy/XPath help

2012-12-21 Thread Dave Angel
On 12/21/2012 04:58 PM, Always Learning wrote: Sorry about that. I'm using Python 2.7.3, 32 bit one Windows 7. The errors I get are File C:\python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy-0.16.3-py2.7.egg\scrapy\selector\lxmlsel.py, line 47, in select raise ValueError(Invalid XPath: %s % xpath)