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Mikail Cayoglu
Mikail Cayoglu

Reputation: 189

Python Selenium use dictionary for one general xpath for locator class?

is it possible to get one 'general xpath' for several xpaths by using a python dictionary? In a locators class I want to locate all the elements in a formula to automatically type in data (for automation testing). And in the XPATH, all that changes per field is just input'number+1' each time. So I created this dictionary in python:

class CreateLabLocators(object):
formulaDictionary = {"labname":12,
                     "city":13,
                     "state":14,
                     "zipcode":15,
                     "street":16,
                     "number":17,
                     "country":18,
                     "website":19,
                     "phone":20,
                     "fax":21,
                     }

Is it possible to use the key and the value of the dictionary to have a locator for each field? So instead of this: 

labname = (By.XPATH, "//input[@id='__input12-inner']")
city = (By.XPATH, "//input[@id='__input13-inner']")
state = (By.XPATH, "//input[@id='__input14-inner']")
zipcode = (By.XPATH, "//input[@id='__input15-inner']")
street = (By.XPATH, "//input[@id='__input16-inner']")
number = (By.XPATH, "//input[@id='__input17-inner']") (etc...)

Have something more general. How would I implement this? So that if I want to call the locator outside the class, I should be able to do it in a way like... 

find_element(*CreateLabLocators.city).send_keys("abc")
find_element(*CreateLabLocators.zipcode).send_keys("123")

and so on. On a side note, I am using Python 2.7.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2108

Answers (2)

Andersson
Andersson

Reputation: 52685

In your exact case you can simply do following:

for index in range(12, 22):
    locator = (By.XPATH, "//input[@id='__input%s-inner']" % index)
    #  do something with locator

Or if you want to use values from dictionary:

for item in formulaDictionary:
    locator = (By.XPATH, "//input[@id='__input%s-inner']" % formulaDictionary[item])
    #  do something with locator

Upvotes: 1

Trevor K
Trevor K

Reputation: 125

You could you do something like this - 

def xpath_builder(which_one):
     first_half = r"//input[@id='__input"
     second_half = r"-inner']"
     return (first_half + formulaDictionary[which_one] + second_half)

your_element = driver.find_element_by_xpath(xpath_builder(city))

Upvotes: 1

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