Python Selenium - extracting contents using function in a loop

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I am trying to scrape the contents using selenium and since the xpaths are similar, i am using a list so that i don't need to write 'find_element_by_xpath'. I wrote a function to get the contents but the contents are not getting extracted. Here is my code:

def find_text(path):
    driver.find_element_by_xpath(path).text

ph_packages= ["PAY_AS_YOU_TALK", "EVENINGS_AND_WEEKEND_EXTRA"]
for i in ph_packages:
    ph_name.append(find_text('//*[@id="productButtonControls_ST_%s"]/label' % i))
    print ph_name

There is no output with this code but when i used the same code without the function, then it is working totally fine.

ph_packages= ["PAY_AS_YOU_TALK", "EVENINGS_AND_WEEKEND_EXTRA"]
for i in ph_packages:
    ph_name.append(driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="productButtonControls_ST_%s"]/label' % i).text)

I think i am doing some mistake with writing the function. Could someone help me with this?

Tarun Lalwani · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-29 07:16:39Z

2

That is because your function doesn't return anything

def find_text(path):
    driver.find_element_by_xpath(path).text

Should be

def find_text(path):
    return driver.find_element_by_xpath(path).text

answered Aug 29, 2017 at 7:16

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