Selenium webdriver find_element_by_xpath takes time

Question

If element does not exist on the page find_element_by_xpath() takes too much time hanging the test execution. Is there any way to set timeout to find_element_by_xpath() function in python?

Answer 1

You can set an implicit wait using this code -

ff = webdriver.Firefox()
ff.implicitly_wait(10) # seconds

This makes the WebDriver wait for 10 secs before raising an error when you try to find an element on the webpage.