Select an option onto a select box using python

[Thomas CARPENTIER]

Hi!

I've tried to select an option onto a listbox but it raise an error. 

This is my code : 

selectBox = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath(select_pension_locators)

options = selectBox.find_elements(by=By.TAG_NAME, value="option")

         myoption = options[1]

                   myoption.select()

After running this code, i get : 

E       AttributeError: 'WebElement' object has no attribute 'select'

if someone can help me !!!

Thanks!

Thomas

[Mark Collin]

Use the Select (or SelectElement in .Net) object  e.g.:

 

WebElement foo = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select"));

Select se = new Select(foo);

se.selectByVisibleText("<textOfOptionToSelect>");

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[Thomas CARPENTIER]

I've just read this from the python bindings change logs  :

Selenium 2
* Removed toggle() and select()

Selenium 2 RC 3
* Added Opera to Desired Capabilities
* Removed deprecrated methods
* Deprecated toggle() and select() methods. This will be removed in the next release

[Thomas CARPENTIER]

I found a solution : 

select_by_value(self.driver.find_element_by_xpath(select_pension_locators), "Thomas")

def select_by_value(self, webElement, value):

        '''

        This function selects an item given by

        the argument 'value' within the 'WebElement' object

        '''

        options = webElement.find_elements_by_tag_name("option")

        for option in options:

            if option.text == value:

                webElement.click()

                webElement.send_keys(option.text, Keys.RETURN)

[Saran Saravanan]

obj.selectByVisibleText()

is a function in javascript ! but what is the equivalent function in python ??

[Doug Dragon]

Saran,

This should point you in the right direction:

http://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/py/webdriver_support/selenium.webdriver.support.select.html#selenium.webdriver.support.select.Select.deselect_by_visible_text.

Hope that helps,

-Doug