Why do I get this bracket not closed error

Question

I am attempting to learn scrapy but I have run across this error and can't seem to find where it is coming from. The error appears on the final row under the ( after response.xpath

import scrapy
import logging

class CountriesSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = 'countries'
    allowed_domains = ['www.worldometers.info']
    start_urls = ['https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/']

    def parse(self, response):
        countries = response.xpath("//td/a")
        for country in countries:
            name = country.xpath(".//text()").get()
            link = country.xpath(".//@href").get()

            # absolute_url = f"htpps://www.worldometers.info{link}"
            # absolute_url = response.urljoin(link)
            # yield scrapy.Request(url=absolute_url) 
            yield response.follow(url=link, callback=self.parse_country)
                 
    def parse_country(self, response):
        rows = response.xpath("(//table[@class="table table-striped table-bordered table-hover table-condensed table-list"])[1]/tbody/tr")

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error

Answer 1

Last line you are nesting quotes (") inside of a string declared with quotes.

Use \" to escape the quote or declare the quote with ' instead of "

Answer 2

Because you haven't used escape key for the double quotes

I have corrected below:

def parse_country(self, response):
        rows = response.xpath("(//table[@class=\"table table-striped table-bordered table-hover table-condensed table-list\"])[1]/tbody/tr")
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