Convert Selenium IDE Syntax to Python Webdriver

Question

In Selenium IDE it tells me to use the command

selectWindow

and that the target is:

name={"id":"a52b0dc5-b1f5-2020-01db-139f01c0204a","containerVersion":"7-GA","webContextPath":"/345","preferenceLocation":"https:/url/345/prefs","relayUrl":"https:/url/o345/is/eas/rpc_relay.uncompressed.html","lang":"en_US","currentTheme":{"themeName":"a_default","themeContrast":"standard","themeFontSize":12},"345":true,"layout":"desktop","url":"/brvt","guid":"260f0022-66de-a78b-3ce8-8de63a3bdbec","version":1,"locked":false}

How do I convert this in python using driver.switch_to_window ?

I have tried:

driver.switch_to_window(driver.find_element_by_name("{"id":"a52b0dc5-b1f5-2020-01db-139f01c0204a","containerVersion":"7-GA","webContextPath":"/345","preferenceLocation":"https:/url/345/prefs","relayUrl":"https:/url/o345/is/eas/rpc_relay.uncompressed.html","lang":"en_US","currentTheme":{"themeName":"a_default","themeContrast":"standard","themeFontSize":12},"345":true,"layout":"desktop","url":"/brvt","guid":"260f0022-66de-a78b-3ce8-8de63a3bdbec","version":1,"locked":false}"))

Suggestions?

It seems that there are different ways in IDE and WebDriver to identify objects... If you want to know for sure how to select window: click right button on required window and click on "explore element's code" or something like this (depends on browser) to get html source code. Copy it and update your question with this part of code, then I could tell you correct selector to use in Python script — Andersson
– Andersson, Commented Nov 30, 2015 at 20:47
Painfully easy method to switch between windows (2 ideally) gist.github.com/ab9-er/08c3ce7d2d5cdfa94bc7. Tell me if this works for you. — Abhinav
– Abhinav, Commented Dec 1, 2015 at 10:03

Abhinav · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-09 07:24:45Z

1

A painfully easy method to switch between windows (2 ideally) gist.github.com/ab9-er/08c3ce7d2d5cdfa94bc7.

def change_window(browser):
    """
    Simple window switcher without the need of playing with ids.
    @param browser: Current browser instance
    """
    curr = browser.current_window_handle
    all_handles = browser.window_handles
    for handle in list(set([curr]) - set(all_handles)):
        return browser.switch_to_window(handle)

answered Dec 9, 2015 at 7:24

Abhinav

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