To pull null or missing values using XPath in Python, we can use the text()
function along with the normalize-space()
function to clean the data. Here's an example code using the lxml
library to extract data from a webpage:
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In the above code, we first send a request to the webpage using the requests
library. Then, we create an lxml tree to extract the data using the xpath()
function. Next, we clean the data using a for loop and append any null or missing values as None
to maintain the length of the list. Finally, we use the cleaned data for further analysis.
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