Python selenium impossible to select drop-down [du

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I'm trying to select an option from a drop down menu and than to click "Search" but I can't get "select" tag.

The HTML I'm scraping is the following:

 <select class="form-control ng-pristine ng-untouched ng-valid ng-scope ng-
    empty" ng-class="{ 'select_selected' : selected.destinationList}" ng-
    model="selected.destinationList" ng-if="!bIsLoading" ng-
    change="applyPrefetch()" ng-disabled="bSearchLoading" ng-
    options="maps.itineraries[dest].Name for dest in prefetch.itineraries 
    track by dest">
 <option value="" selected="selected" class="">Seleziona
 destinazione</option>
 <option label="Caraibi" value="1">Caraibi</option>
 <option label="Emirati Arabi" value="2">Emirati Arabi</option>
 <option label="Giro del Mondo" value="3">Giro del Mondo</option>
 <option label="America" value="4">America </option>

 </select>

The option I want to select is:

<option label="Caraibi" value="1">Caraibi</option>

The code I'm using is the following:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:example\chromedriver.exe")

# Open the url
driver.get('https://www.examplesite.com')

# select by css selector
select = Select(driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(".form-control"))

# select by visible text
select.select_by_visible_text('Caraibi')

So, I'm trying to get the "select" tag in different ways and I get different issues.

For example:

1st attempt)

select = Select(driver.find_elements_by_class_name("form-control ng-valid ng-scope ng-not-empty ng-dirty ng-valid-parse select_selected ng-touched"))

I get:

InvalidSelectorException: invalid selector: Compound class names not 
permitted
(Session info: chrome=64.0.3282.186)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.32.498550 
(9dec58e66c31bcc53a9ce3c7226f0c1c5810906a),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 
x86_64)

2nd attempt)

select = Select(driver.find_elements_by_class_name(".form-control.ng-
valid.ng-scope.ng-not-empty.ng-dirty.ng-valid-parse.select_selected.ng-
touched"))

I get:

AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'tag_name'

3rd attempt)

driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//select[@class='form-control ng-pristine ng-
untouched ng-valid ng-scope ng-empty']")

I get an empty list:

Out[81]: []

4th attempt)

driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".form-control.ng-pristine.ng-valid.ng-scope.ng-empty.ng-touched")

I get an empty list:

Out[82]: []

5th attempt)

dropdown = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//select[@class='form-control ng-pristine ng-valid ng-scope ng-empty ng-touched']/option[text()= Caraibi]").click()

I get:

NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: 
{"method":"xpath","selector":"//select[@class='form-control ng-pristine ng-
valid ng-scope ng-empty ng-touched']/option[text()= Mediterraneo]"}
(Session info: chrome=64.0.3282.186)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.32.498550 
(9dec58e66c31bcc53a9ce3c7226f0c1c5810906a),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 
 x86_64)

Does anybody know how to solve this problem? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Best option would be use try except block to catch exceptions while your rest code runs fine. Also your syntax is bit haywire.

Try this:

try:
    drop = browser.find_elements_by_css_selector('#someID').click() 
except:
    print("Menu not found")