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Response blank after being assigned to a Selector

See original GitHub issue

$ scrapy shell "http://httpbin.org/ip"

...

In [1]: print response
<200 http://httpbin.org/ip>

In [2]: sel = Selector(text='', response=response)

In [3]: print sel.response
<200 about:blank>

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:8 (8 by maintainers)

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kmikecommented, Jul 29, 2016

@Digenis your patch looks fine.

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kmikecommented, Jul 27, 2016

@eLRuLL this usage of text argument was never intended AFAIK. You can pass url in base_url argument: scrapy.Selector wraps parsel.Selector to 1) provide backwards compatibility and 2) an ability to pass response instead of text.

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