how to use a variable in selenium webdriver find element by xpath?

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so I have a variable named folder which contains a string that I randomly generate. I want to use xpath to find this folder by name, and I am not sure how to put this into action

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[text()="variable"]')

where variable contains the randomized text. With sql it would be like this (select * from table where value =(?)), [variable] ...or something similar

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-20 20:22:13Z

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Try this:

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[text()="%s"]' % variable)

answered Jun 20, 2013 at 20:22

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alecxe Over a year ago

Sure, it's python, simple is better than complex :)

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