I want to control whether my WebDriver
quit but I can\'t find a method for that. (It seems that in Java there\'s a way to do it)
from selenium impor
I ran into the same problem and tried returning the title - this worked for me using chromedriver...
from selenium.common.exceptions import WebDriverException
try:
driver.title
print(True)
except WebDriverException:
print(False)
How about executing a driver command and checking for an exception:
import httplib, socket
try:
driver.quit()
except httplib.CannotSendRequest:
print "Driver did not terminate"
except socket.error:
print "Driver did not terminate"
else:
print "Driver terminated"
suggested methods above didn't work for me on selenium version 3.141.0
dir(driver.service) found a few useful options
driver.session_id
driver.service.process
driver.service.assert_process_still_running()
driver.service.assert_process_still_running
I found this SO question when I had a problem with closing an already closed driver, in my case a try catch around the driver.close() worked for my purposes.
try:
driver.close()
print("driver successfully closed.")
except Exception as e:
print("driver already closed.")
also:
import selenium
help(selenium)
to check selenium version number
There is this function:
if driver.service.isconnectible(): print('Good to go')
it works in java, checked on FF
((RemoteWebDriver)driver).getSessionId() == null
If you would explore the source code of the python-selenium driver, you would see what the quit() method of the firefox driver is doing:
def quit(self):
"""Quits the driver and close every associated window."""
try:
RemoteWebDriver.quit(self)
except (http_client.BadStatusLine, socket.error):
# Happens if Firefox shutsdown before we've read the response from
# the socket.
pass
self.binary.kill()
try:
shutil.rmtree(self.profile.path)
if self.profile.tempfolder is not None:
shutil.rmtree(self.profile.tempfolder)
except Exception as e:
print(str(e))
There are things you can rely on here: checking for the profile.path
to exist or checking the binary.process status. It could work, but you can also see that there are only "external calls" and there is nothing changing on the python-side that would help you indicate that quit()
was called.
In other words, you need to make an external call to check the status:
>>> from selenium.webdriver.remote.command import Command
>>> driver.execute(Command.STATUS)
{u'status': 0, u'name': u'getStatus', u'value': {u'os': {u'version': u'unknown', u'arch': u'x86_64', u'name': u'Darwin'}, u'build': {u'time': u'unknown', u'version': u'unknown', u'revision': u'unknown'}}}
>>> driver.quit()
>>> driver.execute(Command.STATUS)
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
socket.error: [Errno 61] Connection refused
You can put it under the try/except
and make a reusable function:
import httplib
import socket
from selenium.webdriver.remote.command import Command
def get_status(driver):
try:
driver.execute(Command.STATUS)
return "Alive"
except (socket.error, httplib.CannotSendRequest):
return "Dead"
Usage:
>>> driver = webdriver.Firefox()
>>> get_status(driver)
'Alive'
>>> driver.quit()
>>> get_status(driver)
'Dead'
Another approach would be to make your custom Firefox webdriver and set the session_id
to None
in quit()
:
class MyFirefox(webdriver.Firefox):
def quit(self):
webdriver.Firefox.quit(self)
self.session_id = None
Then, you can simply check the session_id
value:
>>> driver = MyFirefox()
>>> print driver.session_id
u'69fe0923-0ba1-ee46-8293-2f849c932f43'
>>> driver.quit()
>>> print driver.session_id
None