Selenium python webdriver

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I am right now learning Selenium via python webdriver with Chrome web-browser. I have written a test as in the course and I have got error Will be glad if anyone can help please:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\Python27\chromedriver.exe")
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get("https://makemytrip.com")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("label[for='fromCity']").click()
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input[placeholder='From']").send_keys("Del")
cities =driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("p[class*='blackText']")
for city in cities
    if city.text =="Del Rio, United States":
        city.click()

The error appears to be next to cities in line 9. thanks.

Does this answer your question? [Selenium - stale element reference: element is not attached to the page](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45002008/selenium-stale-element-reference-element-is-not-attached-to-the-page) — Vaibhav Jadhav, Mar 12 '20 at 10:46

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 12 '20 at 10:15

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you are simply missing the ":" at the end of your for loop in line 9.

for city in cities:

If thats not the fix but just a typo you should post the error message :)

answered Mar 12 '20 at 10:15

Theodor Peifer

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selenium.common.exceptions.StaleElementReferenceException: Message: stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document (Session info: chrome=80.0.3987.122) – Natalie Natalie Mar 12 '20 at 10:19

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 12 '20 at 10:42

The problem is that you're clicking on a WebElement which may have updated your web-page, and then you're trying to click on the next WebElement (in the for loop) which will fail since your page has been updated.

So all you need to is, get all elements every time you update the page

Try this:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:/Python27/chromedriver.exe")
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get("https://makemytrip.com")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("label[for='fromCity']").click()
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input[placeholder='From']").send_keys("Del")

idx = 0
cities = lambda: driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("p[class*='blackText']")
while idx < len(cities()):
    driver.implicitly_wait(1000)
    city = cities()[idx]
    if city.text =="Del Rio, United States":
        city.click()
    idx += 1

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 12 '20 at 10:30

try this

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:/Python27/chromedriver.exe")
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get("https://makemytrip.com")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("label[for='fromCity']").click()
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input[placeholder='From']").send_keys("Del")
cities =driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("p[class*='blackText']")
for city in cities:
    driver.implicitly_wait(1000)
    if city.text =="Del Rio, United States":
        city.click()

add some delay to let the the dropdown to load otherwise it gives another error

This gets the same result as I get – Natalie Natalie Mar 12 '20 at 11:28 — Natalie Natalie, Mar 12 '20 at 11:28

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 12 '20 at 12:00

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Thank you guys. I have managed to solve this problem. Del Rio didn't appear in the results of the search, this is way I couldn't have chosen this option.

answered Mar 12 '20 at 12:00

Natalie Natalie

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 01 '23 at 17:36

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missing colon (':') it should be - for city in cities:

answered Mar 01 '23 at 17:36

chauhany

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