How to modify selenium xpath with python

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driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[3]/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/div[3]").text

instead of this, I want something like

driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[3]/div[3]/div[",i,"]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/div[3]").text

this to increase i in a loop. But when I use this one the error message I have is this

"InvalidSelectorException: Message: Invalid locator values passed in"

MattDMo · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-30 18:23:36Z

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You are using the wrong syntax for string concatenation. Try substituting in the value of i instead:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[3]/div[3]/div[%d]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/div[3]" % i).text

answered Mar 30, 2015 at 18:23

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MattDMo Over a year ago

@zahedae it works when printing because print() accepts multiple arguments, and concatenates them behind the scenes. For everything else, you need to use one of string1 + string2, "foo" + "bar", " ".join(string1, string2), "foo %s bar" % "baz", the str.format() method, and probably some others I've missed. Google python string concatenation and string formatting for more info

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