Running javascript in Selenium using Python

Question

I am totally new to Selenium. I want to execute a javascript snippet in the following code(as commented in the code) but can't do so. Please help.

from selenium import webdriver

import selenium

from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

import time

patch = raw_input("Enter patch number\n")

rel = raw_input("Enter release\n")

plat = raw_input("Enter port\n")

browser = webdriver.Firefox()

browser.get("xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")

pdtfamily = browser.find_element_by_id("prodFamilyID")

pdtfamily.send_keys("Database & Tools" + Keys.TAB)

time.sleep(5)

pdt = browser.find_element_by_id("productID")

pdt.send_keys("Intelligent Agent" + Keys.TAB)

time.sleep(5)

pdt1 = browser.find_element_by_id("patchCacheChkBxID")

pdt1.send_keys(Keys.SPACE)

time.sleep(5)

pdt7 =  browser.find_element_by_id("M__Idf")

pdt7.send_keys(plat)

pdt8 =  browser.find_element_by_id("M__Idg")

pdt8.send_keys("American English")

# Here I want to execute this javascript - "submitForm('patchCacheAdd',1,{'event':'ok'});return false"

browser.close()

If I use -

selenium.GetEval("submitForm('patchCacheAdd',1,{'event':'ok'});return false")

it errors out as -

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'GetEval'I

Answer 1

For this problem use

Browser.execute_script instead of using selenium.GetEval

Let’s see an example of implementing Browser.execute_script

execute_script() will help you to run the script 

>>wd.execute_script("return 5")

5

>>wd.execute_script("return true")

True

This helps you to run your script instead of selenium.GetEval

For more details: https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/api.html#selenium.webdriver.remote.webdriver.WebDriver.execute_script