refactor: use kwargs strategy

scrapy/selector/unified.py

@@ -4,17 +4,14 @@
 
 from parsel import Selector as _ParselSelector
 
-try:
-    from parsel.selector import _NOT_SET
-except ImportError:
-    _NOT_SET = None
-
 from scrapy.http import HtmlResponse, XmlResponse
 from scrapy.utils.python import to_bytes
 from scrapy.utils.trackref import object_ref
 
 __all__ = ["Selector", "SelectorList"]
 
+_NOT_SET = object()
+
 
 def _st(response, st):
     if st is None:
@@ -85,4 +82,8 @@ def __init__(self, response=None, text=None, type=None, root=_NOT_SET, **kwargs)
             kwargs.setdefault("base_url", response.url)
 
         self.response = response
-        super().__init__(text=text, type=st, root=root, **kwargs)
+
+        if root is not _NOT_SET:
+            kwargs["root"] = root
+
+        super().__init__(text=text, type=st, **kwargs)