Get Xpath string of an element that I got by ID or name etc.. Python Selenium

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I have this element and I want to access its Xpath by code, not find element by Xpath like find_element(By.XPATH,'myXpath') and not get xpath it manually on the browser

today = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME,'today')
day = today.get_attribute("data-day")
xpathString = today.get_xpath() # <--- this function doesn't exist

we can get the attribute of an element by get_attribute() function, but I couldn't find the function that returns the Xpath of the element.

please is it possible? thanks in advance!

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1 Answers

This return the full xpath of the element el whose class name is today, i.e. /html/.../el

xpathString = driver.execute_script("""
var el = arguments[0];
aPath ="";
while (el.tagName!='HTML'){
    parentEle=el.parentNode;
    if(parentEle.querySelectorAll(el.tagName).length>1){
        childIndex = 0;
        parentEle.querySelectorAll(el.tagName).forEach(function(cEle){
           childIndex= childIndex+1;
           if(cEle === el){
             aPath = el.tagName + "[" + childIndex + "]" + "/" +aPath;
           }
        })

    }else{
         aPath = el.tagName + "/" +aPath;
    }
    el=el.parentNode;
}
return "/html/"+aPath.substring(0,aPath.length-1).toLowerCase();
""", today)
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