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beepboop
beepboop

Reputation: 57

Using Selenium and Python to push text to Array

Currently I am using Selenium to scrape a website and it is working nicely up until now. I have Selenium find some text on a page and push it to an Array which will then be output to a CSV file. My problem is in how it is parsing the text it is grabbing.

The code in question is: payload.extend(driver.find_element_by_id("psa_retailPriceDisplay").text)

The output to the array is: ['xxxx-1234', u'$', u'3', u'2', u'9', u'.', u'9', u'5']

And I need it in the format: ['xxxx-1234','$329.95']

The first value is already in the array. I have tried encoding it in utf-8 along with a few other things but am not sure how to move forward.

Payload is my current array. I am planning on appending all data to payload.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 438

Answers (1)

Anzel
Anzel

Reputation: 20563

Try this:

new_list = [str(output[0]), str(''.join(output[1:]))]

with output[0] keeping the first element in the list, and combine the rest with join(), and convert to string using str().

Upvotes: 1

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