How to select XPath elements without spaces and double quotes?

Question

XPath

Selecting an XPath element like this

bank = response.xpath('/html/body/div[2]/div[4]/div[2]/table[2]/tbody/tr[1]/td/text()').extract_first()

,
and in csv I get the following result

"
            BANCO DE COSTA RICA

          "

How to get the same result only without spaces and quotes?

Answer 1

Found the answer, maybe it will help someone

bank = response.xpath('normalize-space(/html/body/div[2]/div[4]/div[2]/table[2]/tbody/tr[1]/td/text())').extract_first()