I am using Selenium and want to identify an element via xpath. The locator I want to use looks like this:

ref_code = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//tr[@data-eui-handler="{ event:'click',handler: 'eui.app.controller.search_results.selectRow' }"]/td[1]")

This ends in a syntax error because as far as I see "event" and "handler" in the string are key words. How can I change it, so it is all seen as a string?

I believe the curly brackets are ending the string format right?

Sorry, I am new to this :)

Thanks Pat

CodePudding user response：

The issue is not the brackets but the "

Use

ref_code = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//tr[@data-eui-handler=\"event:'click',handler:'eui.app.controller.search_results.selectRow'}\"]/td[1]")

You need to put an \ before " if they are part of the string