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Remove references to the sel object in shell.rst

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The current documentation has references to the deprecated `sel` when interacting with the shell. I've removed them and replaced uses of `sel.xpath` with `response.xpath` instead.
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Diana Huang 2015-04-12 13:44:32 -04:00
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@ -85,9 +85,6 @@ Those objects are:
* ``response`` - a :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object containing the last
fetched page
* ``sel`` - a :class:`~scrapy.selector.Selector` object constructed
with the last response fetched
* ``settings`` - the current :ref:`Scrapy settings <topics-settings>`
Example of shell session
@ -117,7 +114,6 @@ all start with the ``[s]`` prefix)::
[s] item {}
[s] request <GET http://scrapy.org>
[s] response <200 http://scrapy.org>
[s] sel <Selector xpath=None data=u'<html>\n <head>\n <meta charset="utf-8'>
[s] settings <scrapy.settings.Settings object at 0x2bfd650>
[s] spider <Spider 'default' at 0x20c6f50>
[s] Useful shortcuts:
@ -129,8 +125,8 @@ all start with the ``[s]`` prefix)::
After that, we can start playing with the objects::
>>> sel.xpath("//h2/text()").extract()[0]
u'Welcome to Scrapy'
>>> response.xpath("//h1/text()").extract()[0]
u'Meet Scrapy'
>>> fetch("http://slashdot.org")
[s] Available Scrapy objects:
@ -138,7 +134,6 @@ After that, we can start playing with the objects::
[s] item {}
[s] request <GET http://slashdot.org>
[s] response <200 http://slashdot.org>
[s] sel <Selector xpath=None data=u'<html lang="en">\n<head>\n\n\n\n\n<script id="'>
[s] settings <scrapy.settings.Settings object at 0x2bfd650>
[s] spider <Spider 'default' at 0x20c6f50>
[s] Useful shortcuts:
@ -146,7 +141,7 @@ After that, we can start playing with the objects::
[s] fetch(req_or_url) Fetch request (or URL) and update local objects
[s] view(response) View response in a browser
>>> sel.xpath('//title/text()').extract()
>>> response.xpath('//title/text()').extract()
[u'Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters']
>>> request = request.replace(method="POST")
@ -203,7 +198,7 @@ When you run the spider, you will get something similar to this::
Then, you can check if the extraction code is working::
>>> sel.xpath('//h1[@class="fn"]')
>>> response.xpath('//h1[@class="fn"]')
[]
Nope, it doesn't. So you can open the response in your web browser and see if