Example
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
def set_up_driver():
path_to_chrome_driver = 'chromedriver'
return webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=path_to_chrome_driver)
def get_google():
driver = set_up_driver()
driver.get('http://www.google.com')
tear_down(driver)
def tear_down(driver):
driver.quit()
if '__main__' == __name__:
get_google()
The above 'program' will navigate to the Google homepage, and then close down the browser before completing.
if '__main__' == __name__:
get_google()
First we have our main function, our point of entry into the program, that calls get_google().
def get_google():
driver = set_up_driver()
get_google() then starts by creating our driver instance via set_up_driver():
def set_up_driver():
path_to_chrome_driver = 'chromedriver'
return webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=path_to_chrome_driver)
Whereby we state where chromedriver.exe is located, and instantiate our driver object with this path. The remainder of get_google() navigates to Google:
driver.get('http://www.google.com')
And then calls tear_down() passing the driver object:
tear_down(driver)
tear_down() simply contains one line to shut down our driver object:
driver.quit()
This tells the driver to close all open browser windows and dispose of the browser object, as we have no other code after this call this effectively ends the program.
