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Unable to parse html using lxml Xpath parser

I am trying to parse a review from this page: http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B00143ZBHY

Using the following approach:

the code

html # a variable which contains exact html as given at the above page.
from lxml import etree
tree = etree.HTML(html)
r = tree.xpath(".//*[@id='productReviews']/tbody/tr/td[1]/div[9]/text()[4]")
print len(r)
print r[0].tag

Output

0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c.py", line 37, in <module>
    print r[0].tag
IndexError: list index out of range

p, s :: When using the same xpath in xpath checker addon from firefox, I can do it easily. But no result here, please help!

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Try removing the /tbodyXPath form - #productReviewsno <tbody>.

import urllib2
html = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B00143ZBHY").read()
from lxml import etree
tree = etree.HTML(html)
r = tree.xpath(".//*[@id='productReviews']/tr/td[1]/div[9]/text()[4]")
print r[0]

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