How to get the html text in python using selenium?

Question

I am using python's selenium and trying extract the text into a list or dataframe. Iam trying get the text"M" from class="flex">M. Put this and another item into a dataframe and then loop and do again adding rows to a dataframe.

elm_result1 = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("span[flex ng-bind='LB.record.SEX_CD']")
print("Total results: ", elm_result1.text)

HTML

<span flex-gt-sm="" layout="row" class="layout-row flex-gt-sm">
    <span class="summaryLabel shorterLabel">Gender</span>
    <span flex="" ng-bind="LB.record.SEX_CD" class="flex">M</span>
</span>

and another similar structure

<span flex="" ng-bind="(LB.record.FIRST_NAME)" class="flex">A</span>

Error message

selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidSelectorException: Message: invalid selector: An invalid or illegal selector was specified
  (Session info: chrome=75.0.3770.142)

supputuri · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-02 15:50:44Z

1

Use the below css.

elm_result1 = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("span.flex[ng-bind='LB.record.SEX_CD']")
print("Total results: ", elm_result1.text)

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answered Aug 2, 2019 at 15:50

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supputuri Over a year ago

Use this css span.flex[ng-bind^='(latestBene.record.BRTH_DT ']

devlops_s Over a year ago

how can I fix this code and write to a csv file? its currently looping through but not append after each input is recorded. The list comes out [] blank.

supputuri Over a year ago

Can you please post a new question, just don't want the things get complicated and messed up by answering a different question here.

devlops_s Over a year ago

stackoverflow.com/questions/57368284/…

devlops_s Over a year ago

Can you take a look at this question thank you. stackoverflow.com/questions/59433697/…

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