How to use elements retrieved from selenium? - selenium

Question

How to I effectively use elements retrieved from Selenium that are stored in variables? I am using python. In the program below:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://boards.4chan.org/wg/archive")
matching_threads = []
key = "Pixel"
for i in driver.find_elements_by_class_name("teaser-col"):
if key in i.text:
matching_threads.append(i)
matched_thread = i
print(matching_threads)
driver.quit()
I get the following from the printout of matching_threads:
[<selenium.webdriver.firefox.webelement.FirefoxWebElement (session="aa74a4a6-5bb2-4b48-92b6-50f5d51a9e5c", element="59b6076f-a5a2-4862-9c1f-028025e4b567")>]
How can I use that output to select said element in selenium and interact with it? What I am trying to do is goto that element and then click on the element to the right of it. What I am failing to understand is how to retrieve the element in selenium using the stored information in matching_threads.
If anyone can help me, I would very much appreciate it.

Answer 1

To click on the next opposing td with an a tag with class quotelink.
i.find_element_by_xpath(".//following::td[1]/a[#class='quotelink']").click()
Now if the page moves to another you could just grab the href value, insert them into an array and than loop through them with and use driver.get(). If it opens a new tab you should be fine.
.get_attribute('href')