How to access a web page INPUT element using selenium python

Question

Below is my website content

<input type="text" title="Query for bugs (&quot;Go box&quot;) [Alt-K]"
       name="Go" id="GoText" size="23"
       onkeypress="GoBoxKeypress(event)" onblur="GoBoxBlur(event)" 
       onfocus="GoBoxFocus(event)" onclick="GoBoxKeypress(null)" 
       class="filter" accesskey="k" value="">

i wanted to access the text field i have tried below things

abc=driver.find_element_by_id('GoText')
a=driver.find_element_by_name('go')

but still I am not able to access the element

Answer 1

The selectors seem ok.
There may be something wrong in your setup.
Please show how driver is being defined and how you are pointing at the page in question.

For example please show lines similar to:

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.yoursite.org")

Are you getting NoSuchElementException ?

What if you try driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//input') do you get anything or an error?

See also http://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/locating-elements.html

Answer 2

If you are using def, try this:

def test_1(self):
    abc=self.driver.find_element_by_id('GoText')