scrapy HtmlXPathSelector from a string [closed]

Question

I have a html response on a string. I am trying to make a HtmlXPathSelector out of it, so that i can use xpaths on it. But it shows,

TypeError: cannot create weak reference to 'str' obj

Any idea how to convert string to the response object that HtmlXPathSelector accepts?

Answer 1

hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(text="my html")