Question

I am scraping the website and saving data in djnago model.

I have this line

item.title = site.select('dl/dd/h2/a').select("string()").extract()

but data is saved in this format

[u'Master Developer']

How can i fix that so that only master Developer gets saved

Answer 1

do you intend to do this…

In [35]: l = [u'Master Developer']

In [36]: str(l[0])
Out[36]: 'Master Developer'

or

In [37]: l[0].encode('utf-8')
Out[37]: 'Master Developer'