Try except till element is visible within the HTML DOM using Selenium Python-CodePudding

I am using selenium in python and here's a line that waits 20 seconds but sometimes still gives error as follows:

eleName = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='AutoNumber1']/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr/td[2]/table/tbody/tr/td/form/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr[1]/td/table/tbody/tr/td[1]/table/tbody/tr[3]/td/table/tbody/tr/td[2]/p/font/b")))

How can I use try except and after except statement say goto the same line to try again??

CodePudding user response：

To try the same line of code untill the operation is successfull you can wrapup the line of code within a try-break-except-continue{} block as follows:

while True:
    try:
        eleName = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='AutoNumber1']/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr/td[2]/table/tbody/tr/td/form/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr[1]/td/table/tbody/tr/td[1]/table/tbody/tr[3]/td/table/tbody/tr/td[2]/p/font/b")))
        break
    except TimeoutException:
        continue
# other lines of code

This block of code will continue to execute the line within try block in a loop, till the visibility of the WebElement eleName. Once the WebElement is found, the execution will break out of the loop.