How To Extract Text That Is Wrapped In \t And \n In Selenium

I am trying to extract some text from an element and print it in console, however, the text is wrapped in \n and \t as gathered from this JSON file during a GET request. The HTML f

Solution 1:

So if I have a string like this :

s = '\n\t\t\t\n \n HELLO\n \n\n'

I would use the below regex :

\n|\t\| 

and using replace then followed by .strip() ,I would do this :

s = '\n\t\t\t\n \n HELLO\n \n\n'

a = s.replace("\n|\t\| ", ' ').strip()
print(a)

output :

HELLO

Process finished with exit code 0

Solution 2:

You can try:

s.xpath('normalize-space(//span[@class="classname "]/text())')