[SOLVED] Python Selenium selecting an option in a list

Python Selenium selecting an option in a list

I have a SELECT list

<select size="4" name="ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$lstAvailableClients" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lstAvailableClients" style="height:150px;width:250px;">
    <option value="2780">2780 - R W M (self)</option>
    <option value="2714">2714 - Robert (self)</option>
</select>

Currently I just select the first option like this:

el = driver.find_element('id','ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lstAvailableClients')
for option in el.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME,"option"): 
    option.click() # select() in earlier versions of webdriver
    break

But I can get the count using

el.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "option").count

I could ask the user to select an option 1-2 to proceed.

Is there a way to get the option count and then get the option.click() to select that index to click?

Solution

There's a built-in class in Selenium called Select() that makes interacting with SELECT elements much easier. Here are a few simple examples using the HTML you provided.

# find the SELECT element and turn it into a Select class
select = Select(driver.find_element(By.ID, "ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lstAvailableClients"))

# find the count of OPTIONs
num_options = len(select.options)

# three different ways to select the first OPTION
select.select_by_index(1)
select.select_by_value("2780")
select.select_by_visible_text("2714 - Robert (self)")

There's a lot more functionality available, see the docs.