Finding elements by xpath pattern in Selenium python

Question

I am working with selenium python and lettuce to test django application.

There are many elements having xpath in the following pattern and i don't know how many of these elements exists in the document.

.//*[@id='accordion-note-1']
.//*[@id='accordion-note-2']
.//*[@id='accordion-note-3']
.//*[@id='accordion-note-4']

Is there any way to use pattern in driver.find_elements_by_xpath ?
Basically my purpose is to get all items having this pattern of xpath.

I don't know what version i am using ? @splash58 ..... How to find out ? — Mahammad Adil Azeem, Jun 29 '16 at 09:42
i dom't know about selenium too. If the answer below will return error, try my expression — splash58, Jun 29 '16 at 09:43
@splash58 your answer worked very well. Below noor has edited his answer as well. — Mahammad Adil Azeem, Jun 29 '16 at 11:07

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 29 '16 at 11:38

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Not sure this will work, but you can try by using the below xpath:

.//*[starts-with(@id, 'accordion-note')]

u can also use contain here like

.//*[contains(@id, 'accordion-note')]

edited Jun 29 '16 at 11:38

answered Jun 29 '16 at 09:36

noor

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I have used your answer like this. **world.driver.find_elements_by_xpath(".//*[matches(@id, 'accordion - IT - \\d+')]")**. And this is the error i got this error. **The given selector .//*[matches(@id, 'accordion - IT - \d+')] is either invalid or does not result in a WebElement**. – Mahammad Adil Azeem Jun 29 '16 at 10:35
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It didn't worked out. Gonna try the upper comment. Please upvote the question as well so some one else might answer it. – Mahammad Adil Azeem Jun 29 '16 at 10:38
@AdilMalik have u succedded? – noor Jun 29 '16 at 11:04
Yes. Thanks Guys. So the point is we can use patterns in xpath ? – Mahammad Adil Azeem Jun 29 '16 at 11:09
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/115952/discussion-between-noor-and-adil-malik). – noor Jun 29 '16 at 11:09

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