running Selenium webdriver from Python console

This command entered in Python's interpreter opens a new FireFox window:

webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='C:\...\geckodriver.exe').get('https://doesnmatter/')


But then when I want to locate elements, but this open another Firefox window:

elements = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//*doesnmatter")


How do I locate elements in the first Firefox window from Python console?

1 Answer
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I have recreated your use case and tried a simple solution,
First run the below command (assuming you have already imported neccessary libraries)

browser= webdriver.Firefox()


This command will launch a firefox instance. Once you have the "browser" object available, you can perform any action on this instance, for example,

browser.get("http://some_website.com")
ele_of_xpath=browser.find_element_by_xpath("xpath_of_the_element")


In this way you can keep performing activities using command line (in my case it is mac terminal) on the same browser instance.

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