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how to find text between two specific characters in Firefox XPath and Python
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find_firmware.py
# Firefox XPath
# Full XPath = html/body/div[5]/form/table/tbody/tr/td[2]/table/tbody/tr/td/div/span[4]
# Result: SWI9X15C_05.05.16.02 r21040 carmd-fwbuild1 2014/03/17 23:49:48
# XPath: substring-before(substring-after(//span[4], 'C_'), ' r')
# Result: 05.05.16.02
# Python Selenium/Webdriver
get_firmware_version = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//span[4]").text
# Result: get_firmware_version = SWI9X15C_05.05.16.02 r21040 carmd-fwbuild1 2014/03/17 23:49:48
a = 'C_'
b = ' r'
firmware = get_firmware_version.split(a)[1].split(b)[0]
print firmware # 05.05.16.02
firmware2 = get_firmware_version[get_firmware_version.find('C_')+2:get_firmware_version.find(' r')]
print firmware # 05.05.16.02
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