Selenium is there a way to prevent ctrl+c to close browser window

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In my program I got something like this:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=Options()) #calling the driver
driver.get(website) #opening the website
try:
    while True:
        do_something() #Here I do a couple of things
except KeyboardInterrupt: 
    #When I'm done with the while loop above(the goal is to be able to stop at any point of the loop) I use ctrl+c
    pass
#Here the program continues but selenium closes the window even though I didn't call for driver.quit().

While it successfully stops the while loop and don't end the program itself, selenium closes the window browser. Is there a way to prevent selenium from closing the window?

Selenium will not close the browser if you did not tell it to do so. We'll need to see more of your code. — , Feb 02 '21 at 17:38
Sorry, I edited the original post and added more information. The point is that I want to successfully leave the while loop at any point. I achieved that with ctrl+c but that closes the window browser as well and I would like to keep that open. — hazboin, Feb 02 '21 at 17:51
Hmm... See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46135888/python-selenium-ctrlc-closes-chromedriver — , Feb 02 '21 at 18:00
I tried that but for some reason it doesn't even open a browser and crashes right after. — hazboin, Feb 02 '21 at 18:22
What do you mean under "I want to successfully leave the while loop at any point", do you have specific condition, or end while randomly — Gaj Julije, Feb 02 '21 at 20:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 02 '21 at 21:35

When you are done with the while loop instead of using ctrl + C you can easily break out as follows:

from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException, TimeoutException, WebDriverException

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=Options()) #calling the driver
driver.get(website) #opening the website
while True:
    try:
        do_something() #Here I do a couple of things
    except (NoSuchElementException, WebDriverException, TimeoutException):
        break
# Here the program continues and selenium doesn't closes the window even

Selenium is there a way to prevent ctrl+c to close browser window

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