Return something that isn't element ID with driver.find_elements_by

Question

I am looking for a list of certain elements of a certain class. However, driver.find_elements_by_locator returns a list of WebElements be default. Since the element ID is changing at every moment, I was wondering whether I could use find_elements_by_locator and return a list of something a bit more constant, like XPATH.

Code:

listofblocks = driver1.find_elements_by_class_name("android.widget.RelativeLayout")
print(listofblocks)

Nothing doesn't technically work, just looking for a better return.

Answer 1

See,

driver.find_elements_by_locator 

where locator could be xpath, css, or id, class.. etc.

it will always return a list, not element IDs.

and that list will contains WebElements associated with the locator passed.

once you have a list, in your case listofblocks , you can iterate it :-

for block in listofblocks:
    print(block.text) # this is just an example, you can call any webelement method here. 

also

listofblocks[0]

would return first element of the list, so

you can do

listofblocks[0].click() or listofblocks[0].text

and so on..