Selenium and Python, get text without any tags from HTML body

Question

need to get sentence between tags with Selenium and Python :

       <h2 id='PO-PF2' class="section">Program Information</h2>
        Length: Two-year Ontario College Graduate Certificate program
        <br />Delivery Sequence:<br />

Using find_element_by_xpath in different variations didn't return any results.

Using driver.find_element_by_tag_name("body").text and then parse it for required sentence works but is there any other way ?

Expected result : Length: Two-year Ontario College Graduate Certificate program

UPD:

'(?<=Length:)([\s\S]*?)(?=\n)'

Covered all needed cases

@KshetraMohanPrusty, Thank you, after your question I got the answer ! — Serhii S.
– Serhii S., Commented Dec 21, 2018 at 20:19

rahlf23 · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-21 20:23:10Z

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You can use the regex here: (?=Length)(.*)(?<=program)

(?=...) Asserts that the given subpattern can be matched here, without consuming characters

(?<=...) Ensures that the given pattern will match, ending at the current position in the expression. The pattern must have a fixed width. Does not consume any character

edited Dec 21, 2018 at 20:23

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Serhii S. Over a year ago

Yes, just solved the same way like minute ago. Will mark as correct.

rahlf23 Over a year ago

You should clarify that these are positive look-aheads and positive look-behinds

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