I've just installed Selenium (I'm that new to it) for Python using
sudo -H pip install selenium
and at the following command
from selenium.webdriver import Firefox
I get
No module named webdriver
Any thoughts?
3 Answers
Most probably your Python file is called
selenium.py
Python interpreter at first tries to import files from directory you're in, so the solution is to rename the executed file and issue will be gone.
Comments
Check if site packages link is added in system environment variables;
C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages;
On windows start, type environment variables. Click on the "Edit the system environment variables" . Click -> Environment variables -> Under System Variables-> Scroll down to find "Path" -> Edit and add above path.
answered Oct 12, 2016 at 11:41
Arindam Roychowdhury
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HenryM
Sorry, I don't understand
first you need to import
from selenium import webdriver
then you can use other imports
8 Comments
Bouke
This is not required. Why do you think so?
thebadguy
if I do not import above then my script will not know what webdriver is...thats why its important
Bouke
My code works without first importing webdriver separately, which makes sense to me. When you are right, this would mean you always need to import each level of the package hierarchy.
thebadguy
without import at all how you script understand what you are talking is, for selenium ...I am talking about python
Andersson
@thebadguy, If you do
from selenium.webdriver import Firefox you should use it as driver = Firefox()! It's normal that you cannot call it as webdriver.Firefox() as you import Firefox class separately from webdriver module |
import seleniumand check whetherselenium.__file__points to correct folder that actually containswebdriver?import seleniumalso result in an error?sudo -Hflag. I never needed to use it.