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I am running python 2.7.2 I have lxml and cssselect installed

My code is 

from lxml import etree, html
r = html.parse(start_url)
all_titles = r.cssselect('span.titles') #should return a list of results
all_urls = r.cssselect('span.links') #and this as well

I am scraping a webpage that has titles and their associated links.

But I run into this error: 'lxml.etree._ElementTree' object has no attribute 'cssselect'

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ElementTree does not have cssselect method, while HtmlElement object have it.

Use ElementTree.getroot to get HtmlElement object:

r = html.parse(start_url).getroot()
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