Passing selenium commands inside a list

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Say i have a list , which consist of selenium commands like

browser = webdriver.Firefox()

lis = ['browser.find_element_by_id("gbqfba").click()' ,'browser.find_element_by_id("signup_btn_topPanel").click()']

tried to send the commands as,

for i in lis:

    driver.i

Since i is a string here, python is not accepting it. Any solutions for this??

WeaselFox · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-18 08:37:10Z

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you can use the exec command to run strings as python commands:

for i in lis:
   exec 'driver.' + i

should do the trick.

answered Feb 18, 2014 at 8:37

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sam2426679 · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-19 22:11:19Z

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It may be more readable to make a list of dicts and use getattr()

For example:

cmd_dict = { 'method' : 'find_element_by_css_selector', 'args' : ('div.btn',) }
method_to_run = getattr( browser, cmd_dict['method'] )
method_to_run( *cmd_dict['args'] )

edited Feb 19, 2014 at 22:11

answered Feb 19, 2014 at 21:52

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