CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonselenium
Tomas
Tomas

Reputation: 23

How to pass caret sign (^) to the selenium web driver send_keys() method

I am doing automated tests with python and selenim web driver and need to login to website using complex password.

I need to pass any special charecters including caret sign (^) to the send_keys method but it doesn't work.

For example I try to supply the following password to the method: 45pEq8wfIj^K

The send_keys method will send following: 45pEq8wfIjK (the caret sign is ommited)

I have tried to put the caret sign into curly braces and supply it to the method like {^} but the result were empty curly braces {}. Also tried escape sign and raw string = not a solution.

I have tried the solution provided by ou_ryperd and this seems to work, but I still experience the following problem:

I wrote the following code which works:

if "^" in password:
    splitString = re.split(r"^", password)
    user_field.send_keys(splitString[0])
    user_field.send_keys(Keys.SHIFT + '6')
    user_field.send_keys(splitString[1])

This works fine (only with one caret sign obviously) as I get the caret sign passed to the send_keys method correctly now.

But for some reason, there is one additional caret sign ^ before the first part of the string?! Any idea why this happens?

i.e. for the following password 45pEq8wfIj\^K

I get ^45pEq8wfIj\^K

Upvotes: 0

Views: 266

Answers (1)

ou_ryperd
ou_ryperd

Reputation: 2133

You could send a key chord:

    .send_keys(Keys.SHIFT + '6')

Upvotes: 1

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