Waiting for One of Two Texts

Question

I'm writing tests in pytest using selenium and selenoid.
I would like to wait and see if one of two texts become visible.
something like this:

wait_for_text(text1 OR text2)

Is there any way to do this directly without using try and catch?

Answer 1

Using XPATH logical or

This will help to limit webdriver requests count to 1 per condition check.

wait.until(expected_conditions.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[(text()='text1') or (text()='text2')]")))

Answer 2

You can combine the two checks in a single wait() operation - by using a python's lambda expression, using the find_elements_*() methods glued together with an or:

wait.until(lambda x: x.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[text()='text1']") or x.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[text()='text1']"))

For more details see the reference to original solution here

Answer 3

To wait for either of the texts to be visible you can induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using XPath you can pass the expressions through OR condition as follows:

  element = WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[text()='textA' or text()='textB']"))
  

• Using XPath and lambda you can pass the expressions through OR condition as follows:

  element = WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(lambda driver: driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"//*[text()='textA']") or driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"//*[text()='textB']"))
  

• Note : You have to add the following imports :

  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  

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Reference

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

• WebDriverWait for multiple conditions (OR logical evaluation)
• selenium two xpath tests in one
• Python / Selenium: Logic Operators in WebDriverWait Expected Conditions