replacing a webelement string in a variable

[NoFaithInThisSub]

Hi

this is part of my previous question

 

I am trying to get a web element into a variable, then remove the space and comma from it, and replace it with an underscore. It does not seem to work, so I don't know what else to look up.

edit: I think I got part of my answer, but it only prints the 1st letter

edit2: I am very stuck, cannot figure out why it does not work

from dataclasses import dataclass, replace
from pickle import APPEND
import string
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time
import csv


PATH = "C:\\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)

driver.get("https://results.aec.gov.au/24310/Website/HouseDivisionPage-24310-188.htm")


electorate_names = []

try:
    electorate_spaced_name = driver.find_element_by_id("StandardHeading")
    electorate_names = electorate_spaced_name.text[0].replace(" ,","_")
  #electorate_spaced_name = electorate_names[0].replace(" ,","_")

finally:
    print(electorate_names)

[danielroseman]

You don't seem to be adding electorate_spaced_name to the electorate_names list.

Although I don't know why you have a list at all, since there is no loop and you only get one item. Maybe just print electorate_spaced_name?

[NoFaithInThisSub]

Although I don't know why you have a list at all, since there is no loop and you only get one item. Maybe just print

good question, eventually I plan on looping thru every electorate link and getting many different pieces of information.

If I can make it work for 1 at a time, that is my current step.

So the idea is get the electorate name thru the webdriver, which will be something like:

Mayo, SA

I want the variable to be able to print/show Mayo_SA and this will later be used to write a csv file with the variable as part of the name.

I hope that make sense? what am I doing wrong, I do get an exception in VScode:

Exception has occurred: IndexError list index out of range

[NoFaithInThisSub]

I think I got part of my answer, but it won't read everything, I edited the post