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Subhankor Sekhar
Subhankor Sekhar

Reputation: 111

What is the difference in "find_element_by_xpath" and "driver.find_elements(By.XPATH)"

I have been using selenium for a while with these two methods interchangeably. 

elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("some_xpath")
elem = driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"some_xpath")

So far both of them work. I wanted to understand what is the difference in both of them.

https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/locating-elements.html Documentation mentions By.XPATH as private method, but did not understand it clearly.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2054

Answers (1)

Guy
Guy

Reputation: 50809

find_element_by_xpath('xpath') calls find_element(By.XPATH,'xpath'), so actually there is no real difference.

From github

def find_element_by_xpath(self, xpath):
    return self.find_element(by=By.XPATH, value=xpath)

As of Selenium 4.3, the find_element_by_* and find_elements_by_* methods are deprecated. See the Selenium change log.

Upvotes: 7

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