Converting Java to Python - attribute value to a string

Question

I'm new to python and trying to convert my selenium-Java scripts into selenium-python. I've been struggling to convert below code. Well, this is running successfully with Selenium-Java.

I got stuck wherein i would like to get the attribute value at a particular location and converting it to a string.

String indx=element.getAttribute("num");
int k=Integer.parseInt(indx);
element.sendKeys(""+a[k]);

How do I get that running in Python? Thank you

char a[]={'0','p','a','s','s','w','o','r','d','1'};

for(int i=1;i<=3;i++) {
    try {

    WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("pff"+i));

        if(element != null) {
            String indx=element.getAttribute("num");
            int k=Integer.parseInt(indx);                   
            element.sendKeys(""+a[k]);
        }
    }
    catch(Exception e){

    }
}

I won't try to do a full answer since I've never used java, but from my read of your code, you seem to be skipping over one of the best features of python: Dynamic typing. You don't need to declare data types at assignment. a=['0','p','a','s','s','w','o','r','d','1'], indx=element.getAttribute("num"), and k=int(indx). Does that help? — G. Anderson
– G. Anderson, Commented May 10, 2019 at 16:03
More concisely it could also be a = "0password1". Also, I think it should be .get_attribute("num") for python. — Ahmad Moussa
– Ahmad Moussa, Commented May 10, 2019 at 16:29

Ahmad Moussa · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-13 05:39:23Z

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Firstly, you should learn python. It is not that difficult if you know Java already. As for the function calls nomenclature in python they are slightly different from here

I hope this works for you, I don't know selenium but this should work

# In python comments are preceded by a hashtag
# In python you don't have to declare the type of a list
# A will be an array of the letters
a = ['0','p','a','s','s','w','o','r','d','1']

# Pay attention to your indentation, you should read up on it
# indentation is very important in python

# loop that goes from 0 to 3 (4 here because it's not inclusive) 
for i in range(0, 4):
    # try statement
    try:
        # in python you don't need to declare the type of a variable
        webElement = driver.find_element_by_id("pff" + str(i))

        if element != None:
            # to get the attribute you call this method
            indx = element.get_attribute("num")

            # this is how you parse in python
            k = int(indx)     

            element.send_keys("" + a[k])
        except: #here you have to check for which error
            print("An error has occurred")

And more concisely, it would look like this:

a = "0password1"
for i in range(0, 4):
    try:
        if driver.find_element_by_id("pff" + str(i)) != None:
            element.send_keys("" + a[int(element.get_attribute("num"))])
    except:
        print("An error has occurred")

edited May 13, 2019 at 5:39

answered May 10, 2019 at 15:58

Ahmad Moussa

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5 Comments

Quinn Over a year ago

looks like your except is indented too far

Ahmad Moussa Over a year ago

Ah yes, thank you for that. Is there a reason why the tab button doesn't work in the editor? Or am I missing something?

Abhish Over a year ago

@AhmadMoussa, Thank you so much for your assistance on this. When i ran it, I got an error as "TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects". I then just changed element = driver.find_element_by_id("pff" + i) to element = driver.find_element_by_id("pff" + str(i)) and it worked successfully.

Abhish Over a year ago

@Quinn, Thank you

Ahmad Moussa Over a year ago

@Abhish congrats on solving it. If this helped, consider clicking the check mark left to the answer to accept it and close this question.

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