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Can we get Selenium to focus on an open browser window?

I have been using Selenium for a couple of years now. I learned a ton, thanks to all the amazing people here at SO. Now, I just encountered a new challenge/opportunity. It seems like Selenium always wants to open a new window, which is a new instance, as far as I can tell, and this new instance doesn't know that I am already logged into the system that I want to be logged into. Normally I would run some generic code like this.
import time
from selenium.webdriver import ActionChains
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:\\Users\\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get ('https://corp-login_place')
driver.find_element_by_id('USERID').send_keys('myid')
driver.find_element_by_id ('PASSWORD').send_keys('mypw')
list = [145, 270, 207]
for i in list:
driver.find_element_by_id('InputKeys_LOCATION').send_keys(i)
driver.find_element_by_class('PSPUSHBUTTON').click()
button = driver.find_element_by_class_name("Button")
button.click()
time.sleep(5)
So, I think that automation script should work, but when I run the code, it always opens a new browser window, and asks me to login. At this point my login credential don't work. Very weird. Anyway, I'm already logged in, and everything works fine if I just use the mouse and keyboard. It seems like the open browser window, which is out of focus, works fine, but Selenium don't focus on ths open window, and it opens a new window, which doesn't allow me to login.
For some reason, the code doesn't work when I hit F9, but if I run the process manually, using the mouse and keyboard, everything works totally fine. I feel like
Any insight or illumination, as to what is happening here, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to all!

What I got is that you have a manually opened browser window (which was not opened with Selenium) and you want to control this window with Selenium?
Apparently this is not supported, but there is some code here that maybe can help you.

Selenium always uses a new instance of the browser no matter how many other browser windows are open in your system. If your problem is related to logging into the website you want to test, then please share the website url.
Or else if you are talking about attaching a session of browser window already opened in your system then this article (http://tarunlalwani.com/post/reusing-existing-browser-session-selenium/) might help, albeit the whole purpose of automating is compromised.

Selenium ActionChains key commands enacting key shortcut?

I have a Python program that uses APScheduler and Selenium to automate webscraping. Basically it scrapes a particular website once every hour, and then schedules certain more detailed scrapes to happen at intervals.
The issue is that while I want to start the scraper, and then be free to use my computer for other work, Selenium will then automatically focus on the opened chrome tabs whenever a new scrape is started by APScheduler. Because of this, I am trying to find a way to have the new chrome windows open - but I don't have to focus on them. I've already tried headless and phantomJS, but the site is dynamically generated so these don't really work.
My current solution is to open the new window, minimise it, and then immediately shift back to the old window. To do this I want to perform a keyboard shortcut using ActionChains. I currently have this test code:
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
ActionChains(driver).key_down(Keys.CONTROL)
ActionChains(driver).send_keys(Keys.RIGHT)
ActionChains(driver).key_up(Keys.CONTROL)
Currently this code does nothing however. Is there anyway to fix this? I am using Jupyter Notebook and I am on a mac for reference.
NOTE: this code is being run apart from the main program, I am just using it to test if the script will work.

Try this out. You never .perform() it.
ActionChains(driver).key_down(Keys.CONTROL).send_keys(Keys.RIGHT).key_up(Keys.CONTROL).perform()

Python selenium code seems to wait after calling javascript that display modal dialog box

I'm using Python and Selenium to write an automation script in Internet Explorer.
When the web page throws up some kind of modal dialog box, the Python code stops running and just waits for some action to be taken on the popup. After you press the "yes" or "no" button, then the Python code continues.
I believe the underlying Javascript function that is getting called (saveClicked()) is generating the popup box using this line of code:
var result=window.showModalDialog('whatever....')
Does anyone know how to handle this in Selenium? I want my code to click "ok" in this window or to just accept it. I tried right-clicking on the window to look at source code, etc. but those options are not given to me...the only options are "move/close".
I've looked to see if there is some kind of default IE capability in Selenium that will just automatically accept all modal dialog boxes but haven't found any. I also thought of maybe wrapping the call to the Javascript function with something that would somehow send a keystroke to the alert. I'm open to anything!
Here is the code: It never moves past the .execute_script line...it just sits there waiting.
print('Saving')
# I have to do this because I can't get the handle to the save button
# using any of the known Selenium methods but calling the JS works
driver.execute_script('saveClicked();')
print('Test')
driver.switch_to().alert().send_keys(Keys.ENTER)
The code just STOPS after the Javascript is executed and never moves to the print('test') line or any other code I put there.
Any python selenium code suggestions to solve this would be greatly appreciated.

one way: you can try to use Alert to manage popups
Alert(driver).accept()
otherwise you can see the active window or tab with:
#get current window handle
p = driver.current_window_handle
#get windows
chwd = driver.window_handles
driver.switch_to.window(chwd[1])
reference:
https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/api.html#module-selenium.webdriver.common.alert

Try:
message = "saveClicked()" # or any other of your messages
driver.execute_script(f"alert(\"{message}\");")
driver.switch_to.alert.accept()

Using Winium (+ Selenium) with python only allows me to open the app, but then won't interact with it?

When I try to run any kind of code using winium, it will open the app, but then won't execute any of the code afterwards. It's not as if it throws up an error, it just hangs there and won't move on.
I Am using Python 3.7 on a Windows 10 PC.
I have tried the two 'magic' examples that are listed on the github wiki page for Winium, but even that doesn't work. I am able to use selenium to do automated web testing, so I don't think the selenium module is the issue. I have tried importing the time module and making it sleep for 10 seconds in between lines but this has no effect on the outcome.
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Remote(
command_executor='http://localhost:9999',
desired_capabilities={
"debugConnectToRunningApp": 'false',
"app": r"C:/windows/system32/calc.exe"
})
# THIS IS WHERE IT SEEMS TO PAUSE INDEFINITELY
window = driver.find_element_by_class_name('CalcFrame')
view_menu_item = window.find_element_by_id('MenuBar').find_element_by_name('View')
view_menu_item.click()
view_menu_item.find_element_by_name('Scientific').click()
view_menu_item.click()
view_menu_item.find_element_by_name('History').click()
window.find_element_by_id('132').click()
window.find_element_by_id('93').click()
window.find_element_by_id('134').click()
window.find_element_by_id('97').click()
window.find_element_by_id('138').click()
window.find_element_by_id('121').click()
driver.close()
I would expect it to press the corresponding buttons, but it doesn't seem to do anything except open the calculator app.

I think this example is written for an older version of calculator. In Windows 10, the "Scientific" button is under the Menu button.
You'll have to find the menu button, click it, and then look for the element "Scientific" in the list.
Also, the numeric values for your arithmatic case are not correct. Pick up a UI inspector tool (inspect.exe, uispy, etc...) to make sure you are targeting the elements correctly.

Python webbrowser: simple way of checking when the launch is finished?

I am launching a url with
webbrowser.open('url')
The problem is that sometimes it takes 5 seconds for the browser to complete its launch and other times 1 second.
I need to know when the browser if done launching so I can start clicking the website with win32api mouse clicks.

Use selenium. It has functions to find elements by x path, css selector. It can also click as instructed. The main benefit of using it: it waits till the page loads.
Clicking a button automatically in a web browser with python