python - selenium - Failed to execute 'evaluate' on 'Document': The string is not a valid XPath expression

Question

There is the following page.

http://remitly.com/us/en/

When you click on a select, a list with countries appears. I try to select one country, for example, Colombia and click on it. But I get an error.

SyntaxError: Failed to execute 'evaluate' on 'Document': The string '//span[contains(@class, 'md_countryName_fdxiah8' and text(), 'Colombia')]' is not a valid XPath expression.

select = driver.find_element_by_class_name('f1wrnyr7')
select.click()
countries = driver.find_element_by_class_name('f1o6pohl')
country = countries.find_element_by_xpath("//span[contains(@class, 'md_countryName_fdxiah8' and text(), 'Colombia')]")

Answer 1

perhaps you were trying something like this (change xpaths as follows, based on your needs):

notice here that the text node should be equal to 'Colombia': //span[contains(@class, 'md_countryName_fdxiah8') and text()='Colombia']

or, the text node might contain some long text, but should also contain 'Colombia' in that text:

//span[contains(@class, 'md_countryName_fdxiah8') and contains(text(), 'Colombia')]