title: How to remove u'' from python script result?
body: <p>I'm trying to write parsing script using python/scrapy. How can I remove [] and u' from strings in result file?</p>
  
  <p>Now I have text like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
  from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
  from scrapy.utils.markup import remove_tags
  from googleparser.items import GoogleparserItem
  import sys
  
  class GoogleparserSpider(BaseSpider):
      name = "google.com"
      allowed_domains = ["google.com"]
      start_urls = [
          "http://www.google.com/search?q=this+is+first+test&amp;num=20&amp;hl=uk&amp;start=0",
      "http://www.google.com/search?q=this+is+second+test&amp;num=20&amp;hl=uk&amp;start=0"
      ]
  
      def parse(self, response):
         print "===START======================================================="
         hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
         qqq = hxs.select('/html/head/title/text()').extract()
         print qqq
         print "---DATA--------------------------------------------------------"
  
         sites = hxs.select('/html/body/div[5]/div[3]/div/div/div/ol/li/h3')
         i = 1
         items = []
         for site in sites:
             try:
             item = GoogleparserItem()
             title1 = site.select('a').extract()
             title2=str(title1)
             title=remove_tags(title2)
             link=site.select('a/@href').extract()
                 item['num'] = i  
             item['title'] = title
                 item['link'] = link
                 i= i+1
                 items.append(item)
             except: 
                 print 'EXCEPTION'
         return items
         print "===END========================================================="
  
  SPIDER = GoogleparserSpider()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I have result like this after running </p>
  
  <pre><code>python scrapy-ctl.py crawl google.com
  
  2010-07-25 17:44:44+0300 [-] Log opened.
  2010-07-25 17:44:44+0300 [googleparser] DEBUG: Enabled extensions: CoreStats, CloseSpider, WebService, TelnetConsole, MemoryUsage
  2010-07-25 17:44:44+0300 [googleparser] DEBUG: Enabled scheduler middlewares: DuplicatesFilterMiddleware
  2010-07-25 17:44:44+0300 [googleparser] DEBUG: Enabled downloader middlewares: HttpAuthMiddleware, DownloaderStats, UserAgentMiddleware, RedirectMiddleware, DefaultHeadersMiddleware, CookiesMiddleware, HttpCompressionMiddleware, RetryMiddleware
  2010-07-25 17:44:44+0300 [googleparser] DEBUG: Enabled spider middlewares: UrlLengthMiddleware, HttpErrorMiddleware, RefererMiddleware, OffsiteMiddleware, DepthMiddleware
  2010-07-25 17:44:44+0300 [googleparser] DEBUG: Enabled item pipelines: CsvWriterPipeline
  2010-07-25 17:44:44+0300 [-] scrapy.webservice.WebService starting on 6080
  2010-07-25 17:44:44+0300 [-] scrapy.telnet.TelnetConsole starting on 6023
  2010-07-25 17:44:44+0300 [google.com] INFO: Spider opened
  2010-07-25 17:44:45+0300 [google.com] DEBUG: Crawled (200) &lt;GET http://www.google.com/search?q=this+is+first+test&amp;num=20&amp;hl=uk&amp;start=0&gt; (referer: None)
  ===START=======================================================
  [u'this is first test - \u041f\u043e\u0448\u0443\u043a Google']
  ---DATA--------------------------------------------------------
  2010-07-25 17:52:42+0300 [google.com] DEBUG: Scraped GoogleparserItem(num=1, link=[u'http://www.amazon.com/First-Protector-Small-Tamora-Pierce/dp/0679889175'], title=u"[u'Amazon.com: First Test (Protector of the Small) (9780679889175 ...']") in &lt;http://www.google.com/search?q=this+is+first+test&amp;num=100&amp;hl=uk&amp;start=0&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and this text in file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>1,[u'Amazon.com: First Test (Protector of the Small) (9780679889175 ...'],[u'http://www.amazon.com/First-Protector-Small-Tamora-Pierce/dp/0679889175']
  </code></pre>