Overview

Selenium 4.18, released on March 2, 2024, improves Python 3.12 support and wait mechanisms.

Main Features

Python 3.12 support

Full Python 3.12 compatibility is ensured, fixing deprecation issues.

python 
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://example.com')
print(driver.title)
driver.quit()

Improved waits

Explicit waits are more reliable with better condition handling and polling.

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

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
element = wait.until(
    EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'result'))
)

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