How to pass variable inside find element method in Selenium , Python

Question

I need to do some changes in below line :

browser.find_element_by_css_selector("[href='/new/ank/abgh/add/']")

Now I have create a string variable lStr and assign href value to it:

lStr="/new/ank/abgh/add/"

Now I want to know how to replace /new/ank/abgh/add/ with variable lStr in above selenium command. I tried like below :

browser.find_element_by_css_selector("[href='{lStr}']")

but it is not working, I am new to python so do know how to do this.

Yi Zeng · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-11 02:57:36Z

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Try use plus sign to concatenate them.

browser.find_element_by_css_selector("[href='" + lStr + "']")
#browser.find_element_by_css_selector("[href='"+ str(lStr) + "']")

answered Jul 11, 2013 at 2:45

Yi Zeng

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In below line: browser.find_element_by_css_selector("[href='/new/ank/abgh/add/']")