Tutorial on how to set up a python+selenium development environment

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web debugging tools Introduction and development environment setup

Python and selenium development environment setup:

1. Download python software:https://www.python.org/

After downloading, install it. After the installation is successful, open IDLE (Python 3.6.2), as shown below:

As shown above, enter print("Hello Wrod!") and press Enter. Hello Wrod! appears, indicating that IDLE has been installed. Next, open the dos command window and enter Python and press Enter. As shown below:

#The python version number and other information appear indicating that python has been installed successfully. If an error message appears, you need to configure the environment variables:

Add the python installation directory to the environment system variable Path, for example: C:\Python35\Scripts;C:\Python35\, this is installed on the C drive Directory.

2. Install pip: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip

After downloading, unzip it, Open the dos command window and enter the folder you just decompressed (for example: D:\pip-9.0.1, this is the decompressed pip folder) and enter the following information:

Enter the following information and press Enter to install. After installation, the installation directory is displayed: C:\Python35\Lib\site-packages\pip-9.0.1-py3.5.egg

In the dos command window, enter: pip.exe and press Enter, as shown below:

Then configure the environment variables and add C:\Python35\Lib\ to the environment system variable Path site-packages\pip-9.0.1-py3.5.egg (this is the directory installed on the C drive).

Open IDLE (Python 3.6.2) again, enter import selenium and press Enter, as shown below:

##If selenium is not found, you can use pip install -U selenium command installation

Use selenium to open the firefox browser below:

First go to https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases to download geckodriver.exe. After downloading, copy the exe into the python installation root directory (the same directory as python.exe)

In IDLE (Python 3.6.2), enter import selenium and press Enter, then enter from selenium import webdriver and press Enter, and finally enter browser=webdriver.Firefox() Press the Enter key to successfully call the firefox browser. As shown in the picture:

firefox front-end tool introduction:

1.fireBug: a set of development plug-ins under the FireFox browser

2 .Function: View the elements on the page and locate them according to their attributes

How to install fireBug, open the FireFox browser and follow the instructions in the following picture to install:

##Front-end technology

Introduction:1.html: The basis of a web page is a Markup language, display data;

2.JS: Front-end scripting language, interpreted language, add interactive behavior to the page;

3.xml: Extended markup language, used for transmission and storage Data

4.css: Cascading style sheet, used to express file styles such as HTML or XML

Use selenium to open the chrome browser (install the Chrome browser webdriver):

1. Install the chrome browser; 2. Download chromedriver.exe; 3. Place the downloaded chromedriver.exe file under the directory where the Chrome browser is installed (such as: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\ Application) 4. Configure environment variables and add C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application to the environment system variable Path.

In IDLE (Python 3.6.2), enter import selenium and press Enter, then enter from selenium import webdriver and press Enter, and finally enter b=webdriver.Chrome() and press Enter to successfully call chrome browser. As shown in the picture:

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