selenium - webcrawler- find_elements_by_css_selector(webelement).text does not work but need an iterator. why?

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as the question suggests why is the below wrong code would not work but the correct code would?

arent they eseentially the same thing? i looked around and saw the post that explained that the python native list works but the selenium created object list in this case will not work

But i did not really understand it in its essence, could anyone please elaborate alittle further in plain english for a novice programmer please

Wrong Code:

mainText = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(
    'div.post_content.clearfix > p').text
    print(mainContentDetail)

List has no attribute text

Correct code:

mainText = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(
    'div.post_content.clearfix > p')
for mainContentDetail in mainText:
    print(mainContentDetail.text)
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1 Answers

When you use below, you rae trying to list of elements with css selector matching with div.post_content.clearfix > p.

driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(
    'div.post_content.clearfix > p')

And when you write below, you are trying to get the text from multiple elements. But text method works to get the text associated with a single element. As you are trying to get the Text from multiple elements using text method it throws error.

driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(
    'div.post_content.clearfix > p').text

Where as in below code you have list element to a list called mainText and you are iterating through each element in mainText list and and then getting the text from each element using text method. hence it works.

mainText = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(
    'div.post_content.clearfix > p')
for mainContentDetail in mainText:
    print(mainContentDetail.text)
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