scrapy xpath selector repeats data

Question

I am trying to extract the business name and address from each listing and export it to a -csv, but I am having problems with the output csv. I think bizs = hxs.select(\"//

Answer 1

you should add one "." to select the relative xpath, and here is from scrapy document(http://doc.scrapy.org/en/0.16/topics/selectors.html)

At first, you may be tempted to use the following approach, which is wrong, as it actually extracts all

elements from the document, not only those inside elements:

>>> for p in divs.select('//p') # this is wrong - gets all <p> from the whole document
>>>     print p.extract()

This is the proper way to do it (note the dot prefixing the .//p XPath):

>>> for p in divs.select('.//p') # extracts all <p> inside
>>>     print p.extract()