Python - xpath syntax for a form (lxml.html)

Question

<form method="post" name="login_form" action="/submit">

I'm trying to get the action attribute I've tried

print fromstring(source).xpath('.//form[@action]')[0].text , but it prints

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Answer 1

Your XPath expression returns the <form> element , not the attribute.

Get the attribute from the element:

print fromstring(source).xpath('.//form[@action]')[0].get('action')