[🐛 Bug]: Python - JavaScript alerts, prompts and confirmations

[paulotcj]

What happened?

In the documentation, the first example for handling alerts in Python at the address: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/interactions/alerts/ is the following:

`driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "See an example alert").click()

alert = wait.until(expected_conditions.alert_is_present())

text = alert.text alert.accept()`

However, this code will fail. The probable solution as the example below hints, should be: `driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "See an example alert").click()

WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(expected_conditions.alert_is_present())

alert = driver.switch_to.alert

alert.accept()`

My apologies if I am missing something here.

What browsers and operating systems are you seeing the problem on?

Any

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[titusfortner]

Hmm, I think the expected condition does switch to the alert?

At any rate, we are trying to update all code examples to actual code in the examples directory of this repo so that we can ensure things are properly passing. (https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/about/style/#reference-github-examples)

Is there any chance you'd be interested in writing that code in: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/seleniumhq.github.io/tree/trunk/examples/python/tests/interactions/test_alerts.py so that we can see it passing? We want all code examples using code in selenium.dev, so alerts tests should use: https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/web/alerts.html

[eaccmk]

Hi @paulotcj , @titusfortner , This issue will mostly be covered by https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/seleniumhq.github.io/pull/1470

[shbenzer]

Can be closed. Current python code example is as follows:

element = driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "See an example alert")
element.click()
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, timeout=2)
alert = wait.until(lambda d : d.switch_to.alert)
text = alert.text
alert.accept()

[diemol]

Thank you, @shbenzer!