Why send_keys function doesn't work in Python Selenium?

Question

i habe a problem in my code.

 for photolink in all_links:

        self.browser.get(photolink)         #Link öffnen
        time.sleep(random.randint(5, 6))

        #liken
        self.browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="react-root"]/section/main/div/div[1]/article/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/section[1]/span[1]/button').click()
        time.sleep(random.randint(1, 3))

        #kommentieren
        commentbox = self.WaitforObject(By.CLASS_NAME,"Ypffh")
        commentbox.click()
        time.sleep(random.randint(1, 2))

        #commentbox.send_keys(self.config.Random_Comment())
        commentbox.send_keys("Test")
        commentbox.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)
        time.sleep(random.randint(3, 5))

        c = c + 1
        print("Liked ", c, " photos")

    time.sleep(random.randint(1, 3))

It works until "commentbox = self.WaitforObject(By.CLASS_NAME,"Ypffh")", so the curser is in the textfield. But when I want to write someting with "send_keys", it brokes.

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Answer 1

1. Make sure you have imported the keys library from selenium

   from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

2. use find element by xpath (if you use xpath to send keys you dont have to click onto it first)

   commentbox = self.browser.find_element_by_xpath("xpath here")

   commentbox.send_keys("blah blah blah")

You may also have to click on the post button instead of using Keys.ENTER