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Any senior automation guys out there? I am writing an automation script using Python with SST and I am running into some limitations with SST. I would like to borrow a function from the standard Selenium library to use in my script in which I double click a line of text to highlight it. I create one instance of webdriver in the beginning of the script with SST and begin performing actions on a web page. My question is: is there any way I can share that instance with a Selenium function to perform this one action. I realize I could do the entire script in Selenium but the company I work for is committed to SST and that would not be accepted. I do not think anyone would mind if I threw one Selenium function in though. Since SST is built on Selenium, I figured there must be a new class that has been written which I can import to perform an action such as this. The code I would like to execute would look something like the following. But of course when I create the second instance of webdriver with Selenium, a new browser is opened and the scripts are then logically split in half. Any tips?

from sst.actions import *
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.webdriver import *
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import *

go_to('http:/yadayada.net/')
## perform a bunch of actions
text = ## get text element with SST

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
action = ActionChains(driver)
action.double_click(text)
action.perform()
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To access the underlying webdriver, you want to reference:

sst.actions._test.browser

Here is an example of an SST script that uses the webdriver.Firefox instance directly:

import sst.actions

# a regular SST action
sst.actions.go_to('http:/testutils.org/sst')

# now using webdriver directly 
sst.actions._test.browser.get('http://www.python.org')

The example in your question could be written as:

from sst.actions import *
from selenium.webdriver.common import action_chains

go_to('http:/yadayada.net/')
## perform a bunch of actions
text = ## get text element with SST

driver = sst.actions._test.browser
action = action_chains.ActionChains(driver)
action.double_click(text)
action.perform()
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I tried what you suggested and got the error below. Not sure why it is not recognizing the class that I already referenced earlier in the code. I don't doubt it worked on your end, we may may just have some version descrepancy:
Please refer to my answer to the question. Thanks for your input, Corey. Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in <module> driver = sst.actions._test.browser NameError: name 'sst' is not defined
Sorry, I though I had it figured out, which was create instance with SST (i.e. page = start('Firefox')), then reference that later in the code (i.e. driver = webdriver.page()). Neither way worked though. Not really convinced Selenium and SST can share an instance of webdriver since I cannot find any documentation saying so. So, still looking, thanks.
@Daemon, try the exact code in the first snippet of my answer. Also remember it is an sst "script", and must be run via 'sst-run', not directly in a python interpreter.
@Daemon, if you are still running into problems, also verify you are an the latest SST release (currently 0.2.4)
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