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Ketan Mangla
Ketan Mangla

Reputation: 17

Python Selenium Webdriver Wait Poll Frequency

Is there a minimum value for the WebdriverWait in Python Selenium? By default it is set as 0.5s

def __init__(self, driver, timeout, poll_frequency=POLL_FREQUENCY, ignored_exceptions=None):

Also, is there any substantial drawback to reducing the polling time?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2402

Answers (1)

Alexey R.
Alexey R.

Reputation: 8686

Parameter POLL_FREQUENCY is expected to be float which minimal value can be queried with sys.float_info.min. In my system it returns 2.2250738585072014e-308.

There is no "algorithmic" drawback since WebDriver is actually a REST service and you use it in synchronous way. However too short period would result in to much useless calls to a driver which could impact the performance of your system, introduce noise to your logs, consume more network traffic, etc.

Upvotes: 1

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