How to create an admin user in Django (superuser)
adminA quick intro on how to create a super user in Django to be able to access the admin site on a fresh project. In our previous post we created…
Quickly start a Django Project
How to get a Django web app up and running. Step 1 Confirm you have python installed: python --version If you have python installed, the above command will return the…
Verify redirects using Python and Selenium
A quick guide and code example on how to verify URL redirects by launching a real browser using Python and Selenium. Firstly we'll import webdriver, and the 'time' module (we'll…
Launch Chrome with JS disabled for Selenium (Python)
You may be creating automated tests on a project which needs to function with JavaScript disabled, this is quite uncommon these days but its still worth planning for. Here's how…
Accessing the DataLayer in Selenium using Python
An easy example of storing and returning the contents of a site data layer in Selenium and Python. # Import webdriver from selenium from selenium import webdriver # Specify our…
Get site cookies with Selenium using Python
A brief example of how to store the cookies of a site in a python object using Selenium. # Import webdriver from selenium import webdriver # Specify our target URL…
Getting CSS properties of an element with Python & Selenium
Learn how to target an element and get its CSS properties. # Import the modules we need from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By # Specify the target URL…
Clicking buttons in Python using Selenium
A quick look at some options when you want to click buttons on a webpage using Python and Selenium. Firstly as always, we'll start with a basic script that visits…
Access the browser console in Python & Selenium
A quick example of how to access the browser console when running automated tests in Python using Selenium. As always lets first import web driver from the selenium module: from…
Manually raising an AssertionError in Python
How to easily manually raise an AssertionError in Python. Option 1 (The long way), useful if you then want to do something else if the condition is not met: x…