invoke driver.quit() in all cases

Question

I have a Python Script B which is started by a subprocess.Popen call from my other Python Script A. This Python Script B runs a Selenium automation.

Now there are several cases that can occur while my subprocess B runs.

The sricpt B finishes it's task at the end
The script B crashes while executing
The script A invokes a subprocess taskkill for script B

How can I now ensure that driver.quit() is executed in script B before any of these cases happen? So I think in case 1. It's pretty straight forward, you simply call driver.quit() at the end. In case 2. you could run a try-except-finally. Nevertheless, how would I ensure that driver.quit() is executed before/when the parent script A runs a taskkill command on B?

The taskkill is called in A.py as follows:

subprocess.call(['taskkill', '/F', '/T', '/PID',  str(processB.pid)])

I am not familiar signals on Windows, but you can check this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/47314406/10556711 — Veysel Olgun, Jul 28 '22 at 00:18

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 29 '22 at 10:18

Create your driver in Script A and pass it to script B to carry on with automation process. In script A place the driver in try & finally so that if the process completes successfully or fails, either way the driver must quit.

So something like:

Script A.

der runAutomation():
    driver = webdriver.Chrome('./chromedriver')
    try:
        ScriptB(driver)
    except:
        print("Something went wrong")
    finally:
        driver.quit()

invoke driver.quit() in all cases

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