I am trying to pass a variable to find_element_by_xpath.

When I use the following statement it works ok:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//tbody/tr/td[contains(.,'searchtext')]/following::td[1]").text

But when I try to pass the search text as a variable like this I get an error:

myvariable = 'searchtext'
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//tbody/tr/td[contains(.,'myvariable')]/following::td[1]").text

It's the same with this:

myvariable = 'searchtext'
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//tbody/tr/td[contains(.,(myvariable)')]/following::td[1]").text

What am I doing wrong?

CodePudding user response：

That's the wrong parsing you've done. Use f-string, read more about f-Strings: A New and Improved Way to Format Strings in Python

so instead of

myvariable = 'searchtext'
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//tbody/tr/td[contains(.,'myvariable')]/following::td[1]").text

do this :

myvariable = 'searchtext'
driver.find_element_by_xpath(f"//tbody/tr/td[contains(.,'{myvariable}')]/following::td[1]").text

CodePudding user response：

You are writing the myvariable as a string, and not passing in the variable.

Instead use .format like this:

myvariable = 'searchtext'
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//tbody/tr/td[contains(.,{})]/following::td[1]").text.format(myvariable)

CodePudding user response：

You cannot fill the variable this way. Better use str.format :

myvariable = 'searchtext'
driver.find_element_by_xpath( str.format("//tbody/tr/td[contains(.,'{}')]/following::td[1]"),myvariable)).text

Other way is to can at strings :

myvariable = 'searchtext'
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//tbody/tr/td[contains(.,' ” myvariable ”’)]/following::td[1]").text