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I have been using selenium for a while with these two methods interchangeably. 

elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("some_xpath") elem = driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"some_xpath")

So far both of them work. I wanted to understand what is the difference in both of them.

https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/locating-elements.html Documentation mentions By.XPATH as private method, but did not understand it clearly.

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find_element_by_xpath('xpath') calls find_element(By.XPATH,'xpath'), so actually there is no real difference.

From github

def find_element_by_xpath(self, xpath): return self.find_element(by=By.XPATH, value=xpath)

As of Selenium 4.3, the find_element_by_* and find_elements_by_* methods are deprecated. See the Selenium change log.

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