Selenium: Quit Python script without closing browser

Question

I use the following to handle the situation where Ctrl + C is used to terminate a running Python script.

except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print "ABORTED"

However, this also terminates my Selenium WebDriver browser.

Is there a way to terminate the script and keep the browser alive, so that I can continue using it?

What I usually do instead, is to pause the script via Ctrl + Z. This unfortunately often causes the browser to freeze and not respond.

Barca

so just don't call driver.quit() right? – Endometrium

@ChrisHawkes, I think OP doesn't use driver.quit(). sys.exit() close browser session despite of calling driver.quit() – Mckale

@Mckale True, although I don't think it matters if sys.exit() is in there because Ctrl+C will make everything exit anyway. – Barca

just don't call driver.quit() or sys.exit() – Endometrium

Answer 1

You can replace CTRL+C+sys.exit() with quit() method to terminate Python script without closing browser session. Just use following form:

user_choice = raw_input('Please click ENTER button to close application')
if not user_choice:
    print "ABORTED"
    quit()

Mckale

Why you use ctrl+C? Is it mandatory for you to end script this way? – Mckale

Well, I guess it's not mandatory to use Ctr+C. If another keypress can be intercepted during the script run, then the problem could be avoided. – Barca

You can close it by pressing Enter. Check updated answer – Mckale

If the script is looping, you can't just wait for user input – Jansenism