root.xpath to pull null or missing values to keep column length in python

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:

main.py
import requests
from lxml import html

# send a request to the webpage
url = 'https://example.com'
response = requests.get(url)

# create an lxml tree
root = html.fromstring(response.content)

# extract the data using xpath
data = root.xpath('//div[@class="example-class"]/text()')

# clean the data to include null values
cleaned_data = []
for value in data:
    cleaned_value = value.strip()
    if cleaned_value:
        cleaned_data.append(cleaned_value)
    else:
        cleaned_data.append(None)

# use cleaned_data list for further analysis
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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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