Error spliting by backslash a text obtained in selenium python

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I'm currently working on HMI tests. For one of those tests, i would like to get some text on a page to use it later.

The structure of the HTML code is like so :

<span class="class1">
   The text I want to get
   <span class="class2">
      <span class="class3">1</span>
      <i class="class4">
         ::before
      </i>
   </span>
</span>

The text i would like to get is in the span with class="class1". In order to do that, i have this :

text_i_want = self.driver.find_element_by_css_selector('span.class1').text

The output i have however is The text I want to get\n1. I would like to get rid of this \n1 in my string, and to do that, I used this :

text_i_want = text_i_want.split("\\")[0]

However, the output is still The text I want to get\n1. Plus, here are 2 important points:

The argument is "\\", because if there is only one backslash, i get a SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
I tried print(repr(text_i_want)) to see if the string i was getting in output was different from what I saw on the console, but it's still the same.

Do you guys know how to solve this ?

Note

I tried the solutions exposed here : Split a string by backslash in python. It didn't work for some reasons ..

Nazim Kerimbekov · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-18 15:01:24Z

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You can split on "\n". Try:

text_i_want = text_i_want.split("\n")[0]

edited Dec 18, 2019 at 15:01

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answered Dec 18, 2019 at 14:55

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MatthiasDec Over a year ago

Thanks, it works. But It won't be the case if there is no 'n' after the backslash. Do you have any idea how to manage this case ?

Jortega Over a year ago

@ZoulouDu94 ``` .split("\\") ``` will work for "\". The character "\n" is read by the computer as one character so you will not be able to split the "\" out of the "\n"

Jortega Over a year ago

Any time. This could also apply to "\r". See this wiki page for new line values. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline

KunduK · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-18 15:03:41Z

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Try Python splitlines() function.

print(driver.find_element_by_css_selector("span.class1").text.splitlines()[0])

answered Dec 18, 2019 at 15:03

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