How to display the count of dropdown items using selenium and python?

Question

I am trying to get all elements within a drop down and print the total count. Here's the code, which I have written for this.

import unittest
from selenium import  webdriver
import time
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select

class dropdown(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
    self.driver=webdriver.Chrome()


def test_selectmethod(self):
    driver=self.driver
    driver.get("http://magento-demo.lexiconn.com/")
    driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='select-language']").click()

    dropdown=Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='select-language']"))
    print str(len(dropdown)+ "products found"

    for i in dropdown:
        print(i.text)



def tearDown(self):
self.driver.close()

However, this throws error while printing str(len(dropdown).

I am getting error in these line only print str(len(dropdown)+ "products found" — vignesh
– vignesh, Commented Jul 9, 2018 at 8:25
This code dropdown=Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='select-language']")) should return a select element. You have to get all the options element within select element using findelements (in C#, use equivalent for python). — Raj
– Raj, Commented Jul 9, 2018 at 8:40
When you use FindElements, it return a ReadOnlyCollection<IwebElements>, on which you should be able to use .count() to get the count. If it returns zero, then xpath may have to modify to get correct value. — Raj
– Raj, Commented Jul 9, 2018 at 10:15

Arnon Axelrod · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-09 18:46:15Z

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Try str(len(dropdown.options)).

answered Jul 9, 2018 at 18:46

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undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-09 13:11:14Z

To display the count of dropdown items using selenium python you don't even have to identify the <select> tag and you can use the following solution:

Code Block:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.add_argument('disable-infobars')
driver=webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get("http://magento-demo.lexiconn.com/")
count = len(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, "//select[@id='select-language']//option"))))
print(str(count) + " items found." )

Console Output:
```
3 items found.
```

But if you want to print the <options> within the <select> tag you have to identify the <select> tag and you can use the following solution:

Code Block:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.add_argument('disable-infobars')
driver=webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get("http://magento-demo.lexiconn.com/")
count = len(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, "//select[@id='select-language']//option"))))
print(str(count) + " items found." )
dropdown = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='select-language']"))
print("Items are: " )
for i in dropdown.options:
    print(i.get_attribute('innerHTML'))

Console Output:

3 items found.
Items are: 
English
French
German

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