Python(PyCharm) Selenium skipping over lines code

Question

I'm working a project to automate logging into a couple of sites and creating users in those sites. It seems to me Selenium is skipping lines and not waiting for user input in the console. I have notated the areas where it skips with python comment marks. I have also replaced specific information with generalized information. Is there something I need to do to force Selenium to wait on console input or is it a bug? Any advice would be appreciated. Also, I'm relatively new to Python as a whole and any bad practices you see please let me know. Below is my code so far.

Note: Little backstory. I started on website2 first and ran into a few issues I'm still working through so I moved to website1 and the code is incomplete as I'm building code as I progress through the layers of the site.

def website1Login():
    driver.get('website1.com')
    username = input("Please enter your username: ")  # Waits for action
    searchBox = driver.find_element_by_name('username')
    searchBox.send_keys(username)
    password = input("Please enter your password: ")  # skips action
    searchBox = driver.find_element_by_name('password')
    searchBox.send_keys(password)
    searchBox.submit()


def website1Create():
    webOrExchange = 0
    webOrExchange = input("Select a service: \n" # Skips action
                          "1. Webmail\n"
                          "2. Exchange\n\n"
                          "Service Selected: ")
    time.sleep(10)
    if webOrExchange == 1:
        webmailSelect = driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text('EmailHosting/Mail/Mailboxes/List.aspx')
        webmailSelect.click()
        time.sleep(2)
    else:
        exchangeSelect = driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text('Exchange/Mail/Mailboxes/List.aspx')
        exchangeSelect.click()
        time.sleep(2)


def website2login():
    driver.get('website2.com')
    username = input("Please enter your username: ") # Waits for this action
    searchBox = driver.find_element_by_id('USER')
    searchBox.send_keys(username)
    password = input("Please enter your password: ") # Skips this action
    searchBox = driver.find_element_by_id('PASSWORD')
    searchBox.send_keys(password)
    searchBox.submit()


def website2Create():
    idmSelect = driver.find_element_by_id('Identity Management')  # Selects Identity Management app
    idmSelect.click()
    time.sleep(15)
    createNewUser_Select = WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(
        EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="request_category2"]/ul/li'))  # Selects Create New User
    )
    createNewUser_Select.click()
    time.sleep(10)
    driver.quit()


def main():
    website1Login()
    website1Create()
    # website2login()
    # website2Create()


main()

Answer 1

To start with, there seems to be some mixup between the attribute value within the Locator Strategy and variable name being used.

You have used:

searchBox = driver.find_element_by_name('username')

But again, username is a string variable holding the actual username from the console .

As per best practices, the variable names should be unique as per their scope.

This step may solve your current issue.

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flush the input stream

You can also flush the input stream as follows:

• On Windows systems you can use msvcrt.getch() method from the msvcrt module.

  • msvcrt.getch() : Read a keypress and return the resulting character. Nothing is echoed to the console. This call will block if a keypress is not already available, but will not wait for Enter to be pressed. If the pressed key was a special function key, this will return '\\000' or '\\xe0'; the next call will return the keycode. The Control-C keypress cannot be read with this function.

  • Example:

     import msvcrt import sys x = input("First Input: ") print("First Input: {}".format(x)) sys.stdout.flush() # Try to flush the buffer while msvcrt.kbhit(): msvcrt.getch() y = input("Second Input: ") print("Second Input: {}".format(y)) 

  • Console Output:

     First Input: asdfg First Input: asdfg Second Input: ;lkjh Second Input: ;lkjh 

• On Unix systems you can use termios.tcflush(fd, queue) method from the termios

  • termios.tcflush(fd, queue) : Discard queued data on file descriptor fd. The queue selector specifies which queue: TCIFLUSH for the input queue, TCOFLUSH for the output queue, or TCIOFLUSH for both queues.

  • Example:

     from termios import tcflush, TCIFLUSH import time,sys a = raw_input("First input ") b = raw_input("Second input ") time.sleep(5) tcflush(sys.stdin, TCIFLUSH) a = raw_input("Third input ") b = raw_input("Fourth input ") 

  • Console Output:

     First Input 1 Second Input 2 33 33 Third Input 3 Fourth Input 4