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Understanding Python Selenium Architecture & Virtual Environment

DEV Community·Dhanusriya Sugananth·6 months ago
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1. PYTHON SELENIUM ARCHITECTURE

Selenium is one of the most widely used tools for automating web applications. When we use Selenium with Python, the architecture follows a structured flow that allows script to interact with browser efficiently. At a high level, Selenium architecture consistes of 4 main components:

**1. Selenium Client Library(Python)** The test scripts stays at this component. When writing automation code using Python, we use Selenium libraries like webdriver, find_element, etc.

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from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver . Chrome () driver . get ( " https://google.com " )

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Here, Python acts as a client that sends instructions.

**2. WebDriver** WebDriver acts as a bridge between Python code and the browser. It translates the commands into a format the browser understands.

Example: -> driver.get() - opens a webpage -> driver.find_element() - locates elements

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