Iterating over a dictionary in python and stripping white space

Question

I am working with the web scraping framework Scrapy and I am a bit of a noob when it comes to python. So I am wondering how do I iterate over all of the scraped items which

Answer 1

Not a direct answer to the question, but I would suggest you look at Item Loaders and input/output processors. A lot of your cleanup can be take care of here.

An example which strips each entry would be:

class ItemLoader(ItemLoader):

    default_output_processor = MapCompose(unicode.strip)