Continue the script if an element is not found-CodePudding

There are at least 2 more questions on the platform but none of their answers helped me.

I just imported:

from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException

then used:

if Newest_tab_button:
    print('element found')
else:
    print('not found')

try:
    wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 15)
    Newest_tab_button = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@text="NEWEST"]//ancestor::*[contains(@resource-id, "itemContainer")]')))
except NoSuchElementException:
    print('Element not found')

Nothing worked, still got the:

selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:

Can anyone help me with that? Thanks in advance.

CodePudding user response：

You can catch multiple Exceptions in the same except block or with multiple except block

try:
    wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 15)
    Newest_tab_button = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@text="NEWEST"]//ancestor::*[contains(@resource-id, "itemContainer")]')))
except TimeoutException as e:
    print("TimeoutException")
    
except NoSuchElementException as e1:
    print("NoSuchElementException")
    
except Exception as e3: # To catch an Exception other than the specified once.
    print(e3)

Or you need to put all the Exceptions in a tuple:

except (TimeoutException,NoSuchElementException): # This catches either TimeoutException or NoSuchElementException
    print("ERROR")

CodePudding user response：

In the second method, you're only catching NoSuchElementException but the issue is that your script is timing out and you're getting a TimeoutException, you just need to catch that too to continue the script

from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException, TimeoutException

try:
    wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 15)
    Newest_tab_button = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@text="NEWEST"]//ancestor::*[contains(@resource-id, "itemContainer")]')))
except (NoSuchElementException, TimeoutException) as error:
    print(error)
# Continue with the script