removing null byte characters from the body

Author: akshayphilar

parsel/selector.py

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def _st(st):
 def create_root_node(text, parser_cls, base_url=None):
     """Create root node for text using given parser class.
     """
-    body = text.strip().encode('utf8') or b'<html/>'
+    body = text.strip().replace('\x00', '').encode('utf8') or b'<html/>'
     parser = parser_cls(recover=True, encoding='utf8')
     root = etree.fromstring(body, parser=parser, base_url=base_url)
     if root is None:
@@ -188,7 +188,6 @@ def __init__(self, text=None, type=None, namespaces=None, root=None,
         self._tostring_method = _ctgroup[st]['_tostring_method']
 
         if text is not None:
-            text = text.replace('\x00', '')
             if not isinstance(text, six.text_type):
                 raise TypeError("text argument should be of type %s" % six.text_type)
             root = self._get_root(text, base_url)