Python Selenium send_key object of type 'float' has no len()

Question

I am trying to send keys on search bar from a column in a excel, it works fine previously but now it just return errors: object of type 'float' has no len().

Please find the code:

def search(key):
    driver.get(url)
    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="searchCode"]').clear()
    driver.implicitly_wait(10)
    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="searchCode"]').send_keys(key)
def get_keyword():
    data = pd.read_excel('search.xlsx')
    for d in data['code']:
        search(d)

If I change to:

def search(key):
    driver.get(url)
    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="searchCode"]').clear()
    driver.implicitly_wait(10)
    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="searchCode"]').send_keys(str(key))
def get_keyword():
    data = pd.read_excel('search.xlsx')
    for d in data['code']:
        search(d)

Then the search bar appears: 175717.0, but in excel, it is only 175717 and test format, it is a bit confusing...

Excel:(pretty sure no float value, and I convert to text format already

code
175717
175740

Could someone please help with this, thanks!

Answer 1

According to Selenium docs

send_keys(*value)[source]
    Simulates typing into the element.
    Args :  
        value - A string for typing, or setting form fields. For setting file inputs, this could be a local file path.

send_keys accepts a str not a float So in your case you'd be replacing d with str(d) The error occurred because len returns the number of items in an object, which is not valid for a float .