Overriding the serialize_field() method in Scrapy

Question

Im using code from Scrapy documentation, with "Product" class item created

from scrapy.exporter import XmlItemExporter

class ProductXmlExporter(XmlItemExporter):

    def serialize_field(self, field, name, value):
        if field == 'price':
            return f'$ {str(value)}'
        return super(Product, self).serialize_field(field, name, value)

and always get error from command line

return super(Product, self).serialize_field(field, name, value)
TypeError: super(Product, obj): obj must be an instance or subtype of type

I am new to Python so any help would be appreciated and did some research on "super" function but still dont understand how to connect this class inside code in this example.

sam sam · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-16T22:07:33

Not familiar with scrapy but how is the Product class related to ProductXmlExporter? The super keyword does not accept unrelated classes so your call should really be return super(XmlItemExporter, self).serialize_field(field, name, value), assuming you want to call serialize_field method of XmlItemExporter.

Overriding the serialize_field() method in Scrapy

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