having a problem with conditioning selenium

Question

There is a problem (the "if" part).

It doesn't wait for me to click left arrow (as an example) to do the task and just instantly runs it.

from selenium import webdriver
import chromedriver_binary  # Adds chromedriver binary to path
from selenium.webdriver import ActionChains
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://www.google.com/")
if Keys.ARROW_LEFT:
    element = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.gLFyf')
    element.send_keys('khkh')
    element.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

You can refer [Link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24072790/detect-key-press-in-python). — Dilip Meghwal, Sep 05 '20 at 10:15

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 04 '20 at 22:54

statement if Keys.ARROW_LEFT: will always be true

you have to use waiters.
either implicitly_wait or WebDriverWait

so it will be

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.implicitly_wait(10)
driver.get("https://www.google.com/")
element = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.gLFyf')
element.send_keys('khkh')
element.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

or

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://www.google.com/")
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".gLFyf")))
element = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.gLFyf')
element.send_keys('khkh')
element.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

helpful links: waits, expected_conditions

yes but i want to assign a key to activate the script – Esi Pc Sep 04 '20 at 23:22 — Esi Pc, Sep 04 '20 at 23:22

having a problem with conditioning selenium

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