scrapy: convert html string to HtmlResponse object

Question

I have a raw html string that I want to convert to scrapy HTML response object so that I can use the selectors css and xpath, similar to scrapy\'s

Answer 1

alecxe's answer is right, but this is the correct way to instantiate a Selector from text in scrapy:

>>> from scrapy.selector import Selector
>>> body = 'good'
>>> Selector(text=body).xpath('//span/text()').get()

'good'