[🐛 Bug]: Timeout exception when using webdriver wait. Even if explicitly told to ignore.

[CapedBojji]

What happened?

Current python version is 3.13.2
Current selenium version is 4.28.1
Current chrome version is latest. I literally just downloaded chrome

How can we reproduce the issue?

def main():
    browser = Chrome()

    browser.get('https://www.google.com')

    if (WebDriverWait(browser, 3, ignored_exceptions=(TimeoutException, TimeoutError)).until(
        EC.url_contains("atoz.com")
    )): 
        print("Success")

Relevant log output

It raises a timeout exception.

Operating System

Windows 10

Selenium version

Python 3.13.2

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chrome latest version

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chrome latest version

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No

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[navin772]

Hi @CapedBojji , I think this is the intended behaviour since the url will never contain atoz.com it needs to timeout at the end.

ignored_exceptions only prevents exceptions from interrupting polling during the wait.
The best way to handle your issue is by using the try-except block:

def main():
    browser = Chrome()
    browser.get('https://www.google.com')

    try:
        WebDriverWait(browser, 3, ignored_exceptions=(TimeoutException, TimeoutError)).until(
            EC.url_contains("atoz.com")
        )
        print("Success")
    except TimeoutException:
        print("required message")

    browser.quit()

[CapedBojji]

ahh ok got it

Hi @CapedBojji , I think this is the intended behaviour since the url will never contain atoz.com it needs to timeout at the end.

ignored_exceptions only prevents exceptions from interrupting polling during the wait. The best way to handle your issue is by using the try-except block:

def main():
browser = Chrome()
browser.get('https://www.google.com')

try:
    WebDriverWait(browser, 3, ignored_exceptions=(TimeoutException, TimeoutError)).until(
        EC.url_contains("atoz.com")
    )
    print("Success")
except TimeoutException:
    print("required message")

browser.quit()

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