In selenium tests, you open a webpage using

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("whateverpage.org.com")

How can I set the timeout of this command for selenium version 3.8.0 and python 2.7.12?

To set the time out for Page Loading you can induce the set_page_load_timeout(seconds).

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set_page_load_timeout

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Method Details

def set_page_load_timeout(self, time_to_wait):
    """
    Set the amount of time to wait for a page load to complete
    before throwing an error.

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Args

time_to_wait: The amount of time to wait

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Usage

driver.set_page_load_timeout(3)

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Example

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.set_page_load_timeout(2)
try :
    driver.get("https://www.booking.com/hotel/in/the-taj-mahal-palace-tower.html?label=gen173nr-1FCAEoggJCAlhYSDNiBW5vcmVmaGyIAQGYATG4AQbIAQzYAQHoAQH4AQKSAgF5qAID;sid=338ad58d8e83c71e6aa78c67a2996616;dest_id=-2092174;dest_type=city;dist=0;group_adults=2;hip_dst=1;hpos=1;room1=A%2CA;sb_price_type=total;srfid=ccd41231d2f37b82d695970f081412152a59586aX1;srpvid=c71751e539ea01ce;type=total;ucfs=1&#hotelTmpl")
    print("URL successfully Accessed")
    driver.quit()
except TimeoutException as e:
    print("Page load Timeout Occurred. Quitting !!!")
    driver.quit()

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Console Output

Page load Timeout Occurred. Quitting !!!

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Documentation

You can find a detailed discussion on pageLoadTimeout here pageLoadTimeout in Selenium not working

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Deep Dive

As per Python 3.x if we don't handle the exception the following log messages are observed :

    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message: timeout
  (Session info: chrome=62.0.3202.94)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.33.506120 (e3e53437346286c0bc2d2dc9aa4915ba81d9023f),platform=Windows NT 6.2.9200 x86_64)