How to get absolute XPATH in Python from webelement

[Scott ODonnell]

I have a python program working that searches an inventory table for input fields.
I use something like this:

XPathString = "//input[@class='smtext']"
inputlist = driver.find_elements_by_xpath(XPathString)

Once I find the input field I'm looking for , I need to inspect the table cell to the left of the input field to see QTY available.

Is there a way I can get the absolute XPATH of the input field webelement so I can adjust it to reference the table cell I need ?
OR
Is there a way to reference the adjacent cell indirectly based on the webelement ?

Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

Scott

[David Lai]

Yes, select the cell, then add a '../..' after the element to pop back up to the parent row, then use a selector to drill back down the adjacent input.

Example:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//td/span[text()='Address']/../..//input").send_keys("1123 Evergreen Terrace")

[Scott ODonnell]

Thank you. 

I will give that a try. 

I was hoping to avoid having to do another call to find_element_by_xpath but I will take what I can get. :)

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