selenium can't open chrome browser on win7 in python?

Question

I am trying to open chrome browser with selenium webdriver in python on Windows 7 but it hangs. Below is the code I used:

`

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.proxy import *
import time
from pprint import pprint

chromeOps = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
print "after chrome opts", chromeOps
print dir(chromeOps)
pprint(chromeOps)
chromeOps.binary_location = "C:\\Users\\cvoicu\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe"

print "after binary loc"
browser = webdriver.Chrome("C:\\Python27\\chromedriver.exe", chrome_options=chromeOps)
print "after browser", browser
print dir(browser)
browser.get("http://www.google.com")

`

Can you help me please? Thank you!

Answer 1

Remove:

chromeOps = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
print "after chrome opts", chromeOps
print dir(chromeOps)
pprint(chromeOps)
chromeOps.binary_location = "C:\\Users\\cvoicu\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe"

print "after binary loc"

See what happens now. When I instantiate chrome, i just set the path to the chromedriver and it works fine for me, also, might be a perms issue running the chrome driver in Python27, try moving that somewhere else as well

Answer 2

I made some changes, taking out the ChromeOpts, because I don't have that file on my PC, and it works for me. Make sure that you add the chromedriver to PATH and you should be fine.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.proxy import *
import time
from pprint import pprint
import os



chromedriver = "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chromedriver.exe"
os.environ["webdriver.chrome.driver"] = chromedriver

print "after binary loc"
browser = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver)
print "after browser", browser
print dir(browser)
browser.get("http://www.google.com")