Selenium py3.8+ DepreciationWarnings - where to find doc to update code?

Tony Oliver guinness.tony at gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 18:20:01 EDT 2021



On Wednesday, 13 October 2021 at 16:16:46 UTC+1, jkk wrote:
> Selenium 3.141+ 
> python 3.8+ 
> ubuntu 20.04 or windows 10 
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade code from py3.6+ to py3.8+ and I'm getting several DepreciationWarnings. 
> 
> Can someone point me to where I can find the documentation that explains how to to remedy these warnings. What are the new preferred coding practices? 
> 
> For example, here is a "DepreciationWarning" that I figured out: 
> 
> py3.6+ 
> from selenium import webdriver 
> browser = browser = webdriver.Firefox() 
> browser.get(url) 
> tables = browser.find_elements_by_tag_name("table") 
> 
> 
> py3.8+ 
> from selenium import webdriver 
> from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By 
> browser = browser = webdriver.Firefox() 
> browser.get(url) 
> tables = browser.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "table") 
> or 
> tables = browser.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//table")

I cannot help you with your immediate problem but am intrigued to discover what your “browser = browser = <expression>“ idiom does that differs from “browser = <expression>“.


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