python scrapy get value using span=id

Question

I'm trying to get the word "Profession" from this html line:

    <span id="PractitionerDetails1_Label4">Profession:</span>           

I've tried doing this:

sel.css(span[id=PractitionerDetails1_Label4]).extract()

It clearly doesn't work. Please help

Answer 1

You need to use text():

sel.xpath("//span[@id='PractitionerDetails1_Label4']/text()").extract()