lxml.xpath 'for/xpath' to get to a node and then xpath again within the loop?

[Veek M]

I travel to 'item-name', how do i quickly travel to c-price and then print 
both values of text.

I tried:
for anchor in element.xpath('//a[@class="item-name"]'): #Travel to item-name
but when i getparent and then call xpath I get a whole bunch of span 
elements as a list - why? Shouldn't xpath start it's traversal from the 
current element (parent to 'a') and go downwards.

Also why aren't contents of span text? print shows them to be Elements so.. 
cprice.text should work.. elements text

<class 'lxml.html.HtmlElement'>
[<Element span at 0x7fd53b261470>, <Element span at 0x7fd53b2614c8>, 
<Element span at 0x7fd53b261520>, <Element span at 0x7fd53b261578>, <Element 
span at 0x7fd53b2615d0>, <Element span at 0x7fd53b261628>, <Element span at 
0x7fd53b261680>, <Element span at 0x7fd53b2616d8>, <Element span at 
0x7fd53b261730>, <Element span at 0x7fd53b261788>, <Element span at 
0x7fd53b2617e0>, <Element span at 0x7fd53b261838>, <Element span at 
0x7fd53b261890>, <Element span at 0x7fd53b2618e8>, <Element span at 
0x7fd53b261940>, <Element span at 0x7fd53b261998>, <Element span at 
0x7fd53b2619f0>, <Element span at 0x7fd53b261a48>, <Element span at 
0x7fd53b261aa0>, <Element span at 0x7fd53b261af8>, <Element span at 
0x7fd53b261b50>, <Element span at 0x7fd53b261ba8>, <Element span at 
0x7fd53b261c00>, <Element span at 0x7fd53b261c58>]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "fooxxx.py", line 47, in <module>
    text = anchor.text + " " + cprice.text + "\n"
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'text'
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<dl class="item" data-id="39280481144" ="">
  <dt class="photo">
  <dd class="detail">
    <a class="item-name" target="_blank" 
href="//item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=39280481144">\u675c\u90a6\u7ebf/\u5f69\u6392\u7ebf/40P-40p/\u53cc\u5934/\u516c\u5bf9\u516c/1P-1P/\u957f10CM/10\u5398\u7c73 
\u6279\u53d1</a>
    <div class="attribute">
      <div class="cprice-area">
        <span class="symbol">¥</span>
        <span class="c-price">2.35 </span>
      </div>







import sys, re
import codecs
import requests
from lxml import html
from lxml import etree

url = 
'http://xdguo.taobao.com/i/asynSearch.htm?_ksTS=1435804975003_695&callback=jsonp696&mid=w-6778075404-0&wid=6778075404&path=/&pageNo='

user_agent = ('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) '
              'Gecko/20111108 Iceweasel/3.5.16 (like Firefox/3.5.16)')

def get_page(s, url):
    print(url)
    r = s.get(url, headers = {
          'User-Agent' : user_agent,
          'Keep-Alive' : '3600',
          'Connection' : 'keep-alive',
          })
    s.encoding='gbk'
    text = r.text
    return text

# Open output file
fh=codecs.open('/tmp/out', 'wb')

# Download
s = requests.Session()
contents = get_page(s, url + str(1))

# Extract frag
frag = re.findall('jsonp[0-9]+\("(.+?)"\)', contents, re.S)[0]
element = html.fromstring(frag)

# Clean frag
frag = re.sub(r'\\', '', frag)

print frag
# Get a element and parse frag
element = html.fromstring(frag)

# Extract text from frag
for anchor in element.xpath('//a[@class="item-name"]'): #Travel to a tag
    parent = anchor.getparent() # go one up
    print(type(parent))
    cprice = parent.xpath('//span[@class="c-price"]') # This acts weird!
    print(cprice)
    text = anchor.text + " " + cprice.text + "\n"
    fh.write(text.encode('gbk'))

# Close output and exit
fh.close()
sys.exit()