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9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions chapter10/3-javascriptRedirect.py
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Expand Up @@ -13,7 +13,12 @@ def waitForLoad(driver):
return
time.sleep(.5)
try:
elem == driver.find_element_by_tag_name("html")
#elem ==driver.find_element_by_tag_name('html') will just return True or False,
#but will never raise a StaleElementReferenceException.

#It will raise a StaleElementReferenceException when using elem to do something
# while it is not the original one due to the page changing.
elem.text == driver.find_element_by_tag_name("html").text
except StaleElementReferenceException:
return

Expand All @@ -22,4 +27,4 @@ def waitForLoad(driver):
#driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='../chromedriver/chromedriver')
driver.get("http://pythonscraping.com/pages/javascript/redirectDemo1.html")
waitForLoad(driver)
print(driver.page_source)
print(driver.page_source)