How to click on an element or the other using if-else logic using Selenium and Python for automated bot

Question

I'm automating a bot to book a certain time (preferred time and second preferred time). I need help to use if else statement to allow the browser to search for the preferred time and if not present to search for the second preferred time.

Below is my code:

preferred_time=driver.find_element(By.XPATH,'//div[@class="booking-start-time-label"][contains(., "12:33pm")]')
preferred_time.click()
second_preferd_time= driver.find_element(By.XPATH,'//div[@class="booking-start-time-label"][contains(., "1:33pm")]')
second_preferd_time.click()

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-21T22:58:55.290

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An ideal approach will be to try to click on the initial desired element inducing WebDriverWait for element_to_be_clickable() and incase it fails catch the TimeoutException and attempt to click on the second desired element as follows:

try:
    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//div[@class="booking-start-time-label"][contains(., "12:33pm")]'))).click()
except TimeoutException:
    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//div[@class="booking-start-time-label"][contains(., "1:33pm")]'))).click()

Note: You have to add the following imports :

from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

edited Jul 21 '22 at 22:58

answered Jul 21 '22 at 22:32

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issue is both could be clickable at the same time in certain situations and in this case we need a solution to make the browser choose the preferred time instead of the second preferred time – Dalia Tawfeek Jul 21 '22 at 22:45
The answer code will always click on the first preferred time. Incase that fails then only fets the second. If the first is successful, the except part won't get executed ever. – undetected Selenium Jul 21 '22 at 22:49
i got an error that timeoutexception is not defined pylance(reportUndefinedVariable) – Dalia Tawfeek Jul 21 '22 at 22:57
Why not try with both with an | between them as xpaths then you can handle the except. – Arundeep Chohan Jul 22 '22 at 03:00
@ArundeepChohan can you please clarify more how can i do that – Dalia Tawfeek Jul 22 '22 at 09:35
@undetectedSelenium thank you that was helpful ,just a question what if i need to add two more preferable time. so now we have 4 preferable times instead of two – Dalia Tawfeek Jul 26 '22 at 22:56
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[Try, Except, else and Finally in Python](https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/try-except-else-and-finally-in-python/) – undetected Selenium Jul 26 '22 at 22:58
@undetectedSelenium could you clarify more how can i do that, pardon me i'm very new to that – Dalia Tawfeek Jul 26 '22 at 23:01
Can you raise a new question with your new requirement please? – undetected Selenium Jul 26 '22 at 23:04
@undetectedSelenium apologies i’ve just found that any code after this one is not working, i thought may it lacks a “then” do something or other ? – Dalia Tawfeek Jul 27 '22 at 05:47

How to click on an element or the other using if-else logic using Selenium and Python for automated bot

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