How to properly use '{}'.format() while finding an element with Selenium Webdriver

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I am writing a functions that searches inside a website using a name_parameter, but I am sure I am misspelling something and I cannot get the correct button with my input. I know the XPATH has the correct structure because if I hard code the page_name then I get the expected result

def change_user(self, page_name):
    select_user = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 4).until(
                EC.element_to_be_clickable((
                    By.XPATH, f'//div/div/div/span[contains(text(), {0} )]'.format(page_name)))
            )
            time.sleep(random.uniform(0.15, 0.5))
    select_user.click()

A hard coded actually working version of this function is the following:

def change_user(self, page_name):
        select_user = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 4).until(
                    EC.element_to_be_clickable((
                        By.XPATH, f'//div/div/div/span[contains(text(), "Carl Rogers" )]'))
                )
                time.sleep(random.uniform(0.15, 0.5))
        select_user.click()

I am using this reference for the syntax https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_string_format.asp

Jason Cook · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-01 16:57:46Z

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Try something like

path = r'//div/div/div/span[contains(text(), "{}" )]'.format('test')

answered Dec 1, 2020 at 16:57

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The Dan Over a year ago

This one worked great! I did a small addition to your answer

techytushar · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-01 16:56:27Z

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You can either use the f"String {variable}" or "String {0}".format(variable) but you are using both. Just remove the f at the start of your string.

answered Dec 1, 2020 at 16:56

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