beginners question: xpath element

[ivar]

Hi People,



I’d be really grateful if someone could point me in the right direction. I’m completly new to Python but it’s so easily read so I’ve managed to get pretty far on just a few hours. But some simple things hinder me and gets me frustrated



For example

Log.Add(element.xpath(‘span’)[1]) generates something like <Element span at 7c9b90>

if I’d like to fetch what’s inside the span instead, what do I type? ivar , I want to the Log to say “ivar”



Thanks

Ivar

[jam]

Try:



element.xpath(‘span’)[1].text

[ivar]

Thanks for a quick reply. I should perhaps have mentioned that I tried that

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)

Could it perhaps be something with scandinavian characters? (åäö)

[ivar]

element.xpath(‘span’)[1].text.encode(‘utf-8’) is tonights winner!

[ivar]

Try:



element.xpath(‘span’)[1].text

Thanks again, and by the way, where do I find documentation on this?

[jam]

There isn’t any yet Once the framework code’s been cleaned up & had a few more things added to it, we’ll be releasing full documentation with tutorials & code samples.

[zakharm]

There isn’t any yet Once the framework code’s been cleaned up & had a few more things added to it, we’ll be releasing full documentation with tutorials & code samples.

Hi Jam,
I've seen a lot of useful posts from you on how to develop Plug-ins. Do you think you could pin a "Tips" only topic and we can start filling it in with tips?

Thanks!