Attributeerror: 'List' Object Has No Attribute 'Replace' When Trying to Remove Character
I Am Trying to Remove the Character ' from My String by Doing the Following Kickoff = Tree. Xpath('//*[@Id="Page"]/Div[1]/Div/Main/Div/Article/Div/Div[1]/Sectio...
I am trying to remove the character ' from my string by doing the following
kickoff = tree.xpath('//*[@id="page"]/div[1]/div/main/div/article/div/div[1]/section[2]/p[1]/b[1]/text()')
kickoff = kickoff.replace("'", "")
This gives me the error AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'replace'
Coming from a php background I am unsure what the correct way to do this is?
3 Answers
xpath method returns a list, you need to iterate items.
kickoff = [item.replace("'", "") for item in kickoff]
kickoff = tree.xpath('//*[@id="page"]/div[1]/div/main/div/article/div/div[1]/section[2]/p[1]/b[1]/text()')
This code is returning list not a string.Replace function will not work on list.
[i.replace("'", "") for i in kickoff ]
This worked for me:
kickoff = str(tree.xpath('//*[@id="page"]/div[1]/div/main/div/article/div/div[1]/section[2]/p[1]/b[1]/text()'))
kickoff = kickoff.replace("'", "")
This error is caused because the xpath returns in a list. Lists don't have the replace attribute. So by putting str before it, you convert it to a string which the code can handle. I hope this helped!