Identifying the first element on the page

I use python with selenium and I am using the following to identify the 2 web elements on my page:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH("//a[contains(@href, '/checkout')]"))

I am trying to select/identify the first one using:

"//a[contains(@href, '/checkout')][0]"

For some reason it does not work. Please help. Thanks

>Solution :

• To identify the first matching element, you can use the find_elements method instead, and then access the first element of the returned list.

elements = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//a[contains(@href,
‘/checkout’)]")
first_element = elements[0]

• Alternatively, you can use the find_element method with the find_elements locator strategy to achieve the same result in a single line:

first_element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "(//a[contains(@href,
‘/checkout’)])[1]")