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Selenium Python - Store XPath in var and extract depther hirachy XPath from var

I sadly couldn't find any resources online for my problem. I'm trying to store elements found by XPath in a list and then loop over the XPath elements in a list to search in that object. But instead of searching in that given object, it seems that selenium is always again looking in the whole site.
Anyone with good knowledge about this? I've seen that:
// Selects nodes in the document from the current node that matches the selection no matter where they are
But I've also tried "/" and it didn't work either.
Instead of giving me the text for each div, it gives me the text from all divs.
My Code:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
result_text = []
# I'm looking for all divs with a specific class and store them in a list
divs_found = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[#class='a-fixed-right-grid-col a-col-left']")
# Here seems to be the problem as it seems like instead of "divs_found[1]" it behaves like "driver" an looking on the whole site
hrefs_matching_in_div = divs_found[1].find_elements_by_xpath("//a[contains(#href, '/gp/product/')]")
# Now I'm looking in the found href matches to store the text from it
for href in hrefs_matching_in_div:
result_text.append(href.text)
print(result_text)

You need to add . for immediate child.Try now.
hrefs_matching_in_div = divs_found[1].find_elements_by_xpath(".//a[contains(#href, '/gp/product/')]")

Send_keys function triggers error message: 'Message: element not interactable'

I'm using Selenium to fill out this HTML form, but when it comes to inputting the data it says 'element not interactable'. I am able to click on the element however actually sending a string produces an error. How can I fix this?
driver.get('https://www.masmovil.es/cobertura-fibra-optica-campos/')
prov = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="province"]'))
prov.select_by_index(32)
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="town"]').send_keys('1')
Thank you!

In the page you are accessing there are 2 elements that are returned with the selector by_xpath('//*[#id="town"]'), one is a "mm-ui-autocomplete", the other one is an "input".
the "mm-ui-autocomplete" is not visible nor interactable to a real user, that's probably what's throwing the exception you're having, and selenium always takes the first match when there's more than one element returned by the selector, so, assuming you want to type something on the "Localidad" field, it is selecting the wrong element.
Try changing your selector to by_xpath('//input[#id="town"]') and see if it works.
Hope it helps.

Can you try with this css selector :
input[id='town']
code :
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input[id='town']").send_keys('1')
The xpath (//*[#id="town"]) you have used has two entries :
one with mm-ui-autocomplete tag and one with input tag.
Always give preference to css selector over xpath. It's more stable then xpath.
In case you would not want to use css selector, then you can use xpath like this :
//input[#id='town']
Code :
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[#id='town']").send_keys('1')

In my case, it happens that the find_element was not working before the frontend finished loading.
I solved this by adding sleep(2) before the find_element_by_xpath. You will need to import the function by from time import sleep.

what to do for dynamically changing xpaths in python using selenium?

I have a xpath as:
//*[#id="jobs-search-box-keyword-id-ember968"]
The number 968 constantly keeps on changing after every reload.
Rest of the string remains constant.
How to I find the constantly changing xpath?

You can use partial id with contains()
//*[contains(#id, "jobs-search-box-keyword-id-ember")]

You can try using starts-with below,
//*[starts-with(#id,'jobs-search-box-keyword-id-ember')]

The details provided is insufficient to to provide the accurate result. Still you can follow the below code references
In //*[#id="jobs-search-box-keyword-id-ember968"] the last number 968 keeps changing. but if you make this like //*[starts-with(#id,'jobs-search-box-keyword-id-ember')] then there might be possibility that you can have more then one element with the same partial is i.e. jobs-search-box-keyword-id-ember in this case it will locate on 1st matching element. that may not be your expected one
Use the tag name lets say element is an input tag whose id is jobs-search-box-keyword-id-ember968
Xpath - //input[starts-with(#id,'jobs-search-box-keyword-id-ember')]
CSS - input[id^='jobs-search-box-keyword-id-ember']
Use the relevant parent element to make this more specific. e.g the element is in parent tag <div class="container">
Xpath- //div[#class='container']//input[starts-with(#id,'jobs-search-box-keyword-id-ember')]
CSS - div.container input[id^='jobs-search-box-keyword-id-ember']

This worked for me:
Locator:
JOBS_SEARCH_BOX_XPATH = "//*[contains(#id,'jobs-search-box-keyword-id-ember')]"
Code:
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, JOBS_SEARCH_BOX_XPATH)))
.send_keys("SDET")

Click on li element searching specific displayed text

Using python 3 and chrome driver. I'm trying to click on my desired element searching for the text displayed on this page . For example, in case of "BEBES" I'm using:
WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,'//*[contains(text(), "BEBES")]'))).click()
but nothing happens. Just throws the time out exception. What's my error?

Your xPath is not correct. Use this:
WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,'//span[contains(text(), "Bebes")]'))).click()
Note: upper/lowercase makes difference
and

This post suggests using the following as text() returns a node set:
//*[text()[contains(.,'BEBES')]]
XPath contains(text(),'some string') doesn't work when used with node with more than one Text subnode

Using selenium to get access class info on website

I am using the following code using Python 3.6 and selenium:
element = driver.find_element_by_class_name("first_result_price")
print(element)
on the website it is like this
`website: span class="first_result_price">712
however if I print element I get a completely different number?
Any suggestions?
many thanks!!

"element" is a type of object called WebElement that Selenium adds. If you want to find the text inside that element, you have to say
element.text
Which should return what you're looking for, '712', albeit in string form.