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Chinmoy
Chinmoy

Reputation: 503

How to extract text from xpath and store into a list for further iteration

I have following code and not getting clue how to extract the days from the xpath and store into some lists with some indexes

Basically the xpath identifies only date but on my web page it contain both Date and Days and Days are not part of xpath.

dar = time.localtime(time.time())
das = time.localtime(time.time()- 86400)
dat = time.localtime(time.time() - (86400 * 2))
dau = time.localtime(time.time() - (86400 * 3))
dav = time.localtime(time.time() - (86400 * 4))
date = {"Date0": time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d",dar), "Date1": time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d",das), "Date2": time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d",dat), "Date3": time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d",dau),"Date4": time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d",dav)}

for i in range(4):
        dayss = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='"+date["Date"+str(i)]+"']").text
        lists = dayss.split()
        print(lists[0])
        print("######")
        print(lists[1])

I'm getting below output to make you understand whats on lists[0] and lists[1]

06-Sep
######
Fri
05-Sep
######
Thu
04-Sep
######
Wed
03-Sep
######
Tue

Expected Output

['Fri','Thu','Wed','Tue']

So that based on the above output I should able to access each index such as lists[0] must return 'Fri' and lists[1] must return 'Thu' and so on. But currently with lists[1] it's returning all the days and not able to pass the iterator lists[i] always getting index out of range

Following is the below html:

<td class="selected_date" id="2019-09-02" width="68" align="center">02-Sep<br>Mon</td>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 551

Answers (2)

KunduK
KunduK

Reputation: 33384

Split the text with newline and append it to empty list.

dar = time.localtime(time.time())
das = time.localtime(time.time()- 86400)
dat = time.localtime(time.time() - (86400 * 2))
dau = time.localtime(time.time() - (86400 * 3))
dav = time.localtime(time.time() - (86400 * 4))
date = {"Date0": time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d",dar), "Date1": time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d",das), "Date2": time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d",dat), "Date3": time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d",dau),"Date4": time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d",dav)}

daylist=[]
for i in range(4):
        dayss = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='"+date["Date"+str(i)]+"']").text
        lists = dayss.split("\n")
        daylist.append(lists[1])

print(daylist)

Output:

['Fri', 'Thu', 'Wed', 'Tue']

Upvotes: 1

Shubham Jain
Shubham Jain

Reputation: 17593

Your xpath seems fine as your html tag have both value and so your are getting both values.

You need to declare one more list let say list2 and add only list[1] in each iteration for list2. Thats how at the end your list2 will contain only data index which you need

OR

You can use index in split function itself

In java it is like

tim.split(":")[0];

In python I guess it is like

tim.split(':', 1)

Upvotes: 0

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