Minimal example: In [1]: from lxml import etree In [2]: etree.fromstring('<who>syslogd</who>').xpath('/who/text()') Out[2]: ['syslogd'] currently I'm using helper function: def safe_xpath_one(tree: Element, xpath: str) -> Union[Element, None]: res = tree.xpath(xpath) if res: return res[0] Here I then need to check first element from result which is additional. Is there direct way of specifying that I want the first and only first element? P.S.: I think I got too much used to bs4's soup.select_one Continue reading...
