How to use unicode inside an xpath string? (UnicodeEncodeError)
I'm using xpath in Selenium RC via the Python api.
I need to click an a element who's text is "Submit »"
Here's the error that I'm getting:
In [18]: sel.click(u"xpath=//a[text()='Submit xbb')]")
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UnicodeDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
/Users/me/<ipython console> in <module>()
/Users/me/selenium.py in click(self, locator)
282 'locator' is an element locator
283 """
--> 284 self.do_command("click", [locator,])
285
286
/Users/me/selenium.py in do_command(self, verb, args)
201 body = u'cmd=' + urllib.quote_plus(unicode(verb).encode('utf-8'))
202 for i in range(len(args)):
--> 203 body += '&' + unicode(i+1) + '=' + urllib.quote_plus(unicode(args[i]).encode('utf-8'))
204 if (None != self.sessionId):
205 body += "&sessionId=" + unicode(self.sessionId)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)
sel.click(u"xpath=//a[text()='Submit xbb')]")
It is possible to write XPath expressions that contain any Unicode characters .
For example:
//a[text()='Submit »')]
I think you just need to change
sel.click(u"xpath=//a[text()='Submit xbb')]")
to
sel.click(u"xpath=//a[text()='Submit xbb')]".encode('utf8'))
That's because the error indicates Selenium is trying to encode the Unicode object into a byte string (using the default codec for Python, that is, 'ascii' ) and that's what is failing; by explicitly encoding it yourself first, with what's presumably the right codec ( 'utf8' , the default encoding in XML), you should therefore avoid this problem.
Does sel_click() expect unicode strings or utf-8 (byte) strings? The dreaded UnicodeEncodeError usually happens when you try to pass in the first when the latter (or some other encoding) is expected.
I can't try it right now, but you could try
"xpath=//a[text()='Submit xc2xbb')]"
instead of your argument (which you get by using .encode('utf-8') ) on it.
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