How do I create a loop within my selenium python script to select every option within a dropdown menu

Question

Im new to python, or coding for that matter... Currently I have a python script to select one option within the dropdown menu, but I would like my script to repeat each time and select the next option. Theres about 50 different options within the dropdown.

l1 = "Hong Kong, China (Chrome, Canary, Firefox)"
urlTextBox = "url"
dropdownOption = "location"
submitBtn = ".//*[@id='start_test-container']/p/input"
homeBtn = ".//*[@id='nav']/li[1]/a"
urlTextBoxElement = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).\
 until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_id(urlTextBox))
dropdownOptionElement = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).\
 until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_id(dropdownOption))
submitBtnElement = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).\
 until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(submitBtn))
urlTextBoxElement.send_keys(webTeamPage)
Select(dropdownOptionElement).select_by_visible_text(l1)
submitBtnElement.click()
time.sleep(3)
homeBtnElement = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).\
 until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(homeBtn))

• Peter M. - stands for Monica: IIUC you want to have script which will loop through the options, and provide results (one option text at a time) to another script which would perform some actions/checks with provided option?

Answer 1

I was able to answer my own question, Please see script below:

 urlTextBox = "url"
 dropdownOption = "location"
 submitBtn = ".//*[@id='start_test-container']/p/input"
 homeBtn = ".//*[@id='nav']/li[1]/a"
 webTeamPage = "personalwebpage.com"
 select = driver.find_element_by_id(dropdownOption) #get the select element
 options = select.find_elements_by_tag_name("option") #get all the options into a list
 optionsList = []
 for option in options: #iterate over the options, place attribute value in list
 optionsList.append(option.get_attribute("value"))
 for optionValue in optionsList:
 urlTextBoxElement = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).\
 until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_id(urlTextBox))
 dropdownOptionElement = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).\
 until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_id(dropdownOption))
 submitBtnElement = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).\
 until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(submitBtn))
 driver.find_element_by_id(urlTextBox).clear()
 urlTextBoxElement.send_keys(webTeamPage)
 submitBtnElement.click()
 time.sleep(3)
 homeBtnElement = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).\
 until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(homeBtn))
 homeBtnElement.click()
 print "starting loop on option %s" % optionValue
 select = Select(driver.find_element_by_id(dropdownOption))
 select.select_by_value(optionValue)