Can we change the default installation path of selenium2library

[nadeemsharif]

Hi,
I have python installed at following location :
C:\apps\qsi_robot\python-2.7.2
I am using Custom batch file to run robot test cases and my python class path is set to following location:
C:\apps\qsi_harness\robot_libs
to import all robot libraries.

Is there a way that i can install selenium2 library in C:\apps\qsi_harness\robot_libs folder instead of
C:\apps\qsi_robot\python-2.7.2\Lib\site-packages

[rtomac]

Hi nadeemsharif,

This library uses Python's distutils for setup/installation. Here's a brief summary of how it works:
http://docs.python.org/install/index.html#how-building-works

Yes, you can instruct it to install to a custom directory. See this:
http://docs.python.org/install/index.html#custom-installation

So, first off, you'll need to install from the platform-independent source package. Then I think you'll want to run:
python setup.py install --install-lib=C:\apps\qsi_harness\robot_libs

Hope this helps,
Ryan

[nadeemsharif]

As per your instructions i installed Selenium2Library at C:\apps\qsi_harness\robot_libs.
Now the Selenium2Library keywords are displaying in RIDE but when i run the test case it gives me error message that failed to import library. SyntaxError: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6 (webdriver.py, line 549)

Could you please look into this issue, thanks. bellow is the error message in complete.

Invalid syntax in file 'C:\apps\demo_scripts\test_suites\Selenium_New_Tests\QSIWeb.tsv' in table 'Setting': Importing test library 'Selenium2Library' failed: SyntaxError: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6 (webdriver.py, line 549)
PYTHONPATH: ['C:\apps\qsi_harness\robot_libs\Selenium2Library\lib\decorator-3.3.2', 'C:\apps\qsi_harness\robot_libs\Selenium2Library\lib\selenium-2.8.1\py', 'C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\robot\robotframework-2.6.0.jar\Lib\robot\libraries', 'C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\robot\Lib', 'C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\robot\robotframework-2.6.0.jar\Lib', 'classpath', 'pyclasspath/', 'C:\apps\qsi_harness\robot_libs', 'C:\apps\qsi_harness\doc', '.']
CLASSPATH: C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\robot\robotframework-2.6.0.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\bin\qsi_harness_library.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\activation-1.1.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\aopalliance-1.0.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\apache-mime4j-0.6.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\commons-codec-1.4.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\commons-io-2.0.1.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\commons-lang-2.6.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\commons-logging-1.1.1.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\commons-net-3.0.1.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\groovy-all-1.6.7.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\hsqldb-1.8.0.7.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\httpclient-4.0.3.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\httpclient-cache-4.1.1.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\httpcore-4.0.1.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\httpmime-4.0.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\j2ssh-ant-0.2.9.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\j2ssh-common-0.2.9.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\j2ssh-core-0.2.9.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\j2ssh-daemon-0.2.9.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\java-getopt-1.0.13.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\javassist-3.6.0.GA.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\jms-1.1.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\jmxri-1.2.1.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\jmxtools-1.2.1.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\jolokia-client-java-0.95.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\log4j-1.2.15.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\mail-1.4.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\ojdbc-14.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\ostermillerutils-1.7.0.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\postgresql-8.4-702.jdbc4.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\scannotation-1.0.2.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\sqljdbc4-3.0.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\common\xmlunit-1.3.jar;C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\arcgis\arcobjects-10.0.jar;C:\apps\demo_scripts\test_data\FileChooserDemo.jar;C:\bison\REL_BISON_V12.01.01.00\lib\startup.jar;C:\bison\REL_BISON_V12.01.01.00\lib\workspacemanager.jar;C:\ExtractViewer\lib\extractviewer.jar
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\apps\qsi_harness\lib\robot\robotframework-2.6.0.jar\Lib\robot\utils\importing$py.class", line 86, in non_dotted_import
File "C:\apps\qsi_harness\robot_libs\Selenium2Library__init_.py", line 8, in
from keywords import *
File "C:\apps\qsi_harness\robot_libs\Selenium2Library\keywords__init__.py", line 3, in
from browsermanagement import BrowserManagementKeywords
File "C:\apps\qsi_harness\robot_libs\Selenium2Library\keywords_browsermanagement.py", line 4, in
from selenium import webdriver
File "C:\apps\qsi_harness\robot_libs\Selenium2Library\lib\selenium-2.8.1\py\selenium\webdriver__init.py", line 18, in
from firefox.webdriver import WebDriver as Firefox
File "C:\apps\qsi_harness\robot_libs\Selenium2Library\lib\selenium-2.8.1\py\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 21, in
from selenium.webdriver.remote.webdriver import WebDriver as RemoteWebDriver

[rtomac]

From your error message it looks like you're running Python version 2.5. The Selenium Python Bindings require 2.6 or 2.7. See:
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/PythonBindings

I've updated https://github.com/rtomac/robotframework-selenium2library/blob/master/INSTALL.rest to explicitly state that Selenium2Library has the same requirements as the Selenium Python Bindings (since it uses them).

[nadeemsharif]

Thanks for your reply by i am using python 2.7.2 version instead of 2.5 (never installed 2.5 version).
Which is installed at following location on my machine:
C:\apps\qsi_robot\python-2.7.2
I am using jython-2.5.2 at following location on my machine:
C:\apps\qsi_robot\jython-2.5.2
SeleniumLibrary (1) is still working properly in my environment but SeleniumLibary2 is giving me this error message.
Could you please help me more to solve this issue.

[nadeemsharif]

Could you please look into above error message and let me know what is the solution because i need
to install Selenium2Library.

Your kind help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

[rtomac]

Hi nadeemsharif,

Sorry for the slow reply. Jython 2.5 implements the same language features as CPython 2.5, so you are effectively using Python 2.5. Is there a reason you can't run this through the CPython 2.7 installation you have there instead of running it through Jython?

The requirement for Python 2.6/2.7 is a requirement of the Selenium Python libraries, so unfortunately there's nothing I can do about in this wrapper library.

Ryan

[vladimir100]

Hi, Ryan:

I have exactly the same problem as was reported. I installed Python 2.7 and Selenium2Library. However, when I'm typing
python --version, it returns Python 2.5.
Sorry, I did not understand the steps to make it works. Could you please list them in detail?
It blocks my work.

Thank you,
Vladimir