使用lxml和xpath解析Html

Question

I am trying to use lxml with python because after reading and doing google recommendation is to use lxml over other parsing packages. I have following dom structure and I manage write the correct xpath and I double check my xpath on xpath check to confirm the validity of it. Xpath works fine on Xpath Checker but when I put it with lxml in python I am not getting results infract I get object instead of actual text.

Here is my dom structure:

<div class="pdsc-l">
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<tr>
<tr>
<tr>
<tr>
<tr>
<td width="35%" valign="top">
<font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Brand</font>
</td>
<td width="65%" valign="top">
<font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">HTC</font>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="35%" valign="top">
<td width="65%" valign="top">

Following xpath that I wrote gives me what I want..

//td//font[text()='Brand']/following::td[1]

But with lxml I am nto getting the result:

This is my code:
    rawPage = urllib2.urlopen(request)
    read = rawPage.read()
    #print read
    tree = etree.HTML(read)    
    for tr in tree.xpath("//tr"):
        print tr.xpath("//td//font[text()='Brand']/following::td[1]")

Here is the out put

[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]
[<Element td at 0x10ad80b90>]

I tried it with following change but still i don't get the result, The code I wrote has the url, hopefully that will help for a better answer:

from lxml import etree
from lxml.html import fromstring, tostring
    url = 'http://www.ebay.com/ctg/111176858'
    request = urllib2.Request(url)
    rawPage = urllib2.urlopen(request)
    read = rawPage.read()
    #print read
    tree = etree.HTML(read)    
    for tr in tree.xpath("//tr"):
        t = tr.xpath("//td//font[text()='Brand']/following::td[1]")[0]
        print tostring(t)

Answer 1

appending a [0].text to the end of the print statement in your answer should give you what you want. Basically, what's being printed in your question are single-element lists of lxml.etree._Element s, which have attributes like tag and text that you can use to get different properties. So, try

tr.xpath("//td//font[text()='Brand']/following::td[1]")[0].text