Unable to capture the alert in Selenium using Python

Question

I am trying to test a web portal using Selenium and Python. The problem is, I am unable to get around an error, in other words, I am unable to catch the alert.

Scenario:

Search for a user, if the user is not found, the website throws an error. I have a list that contains valid and invalid users to perform the search upon. When the search is successful, there are a few links I need to click to get to the user. If the user is not found, the links won't be displayed and an error is displayed instead. The problem is when I search for an invalid user, the code is looking for the links that are displayed when the a valid user is displayed.

Code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.webdriver import WebDriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.alert import Alert
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoAlertPresentException
import time
browser = webdriver.Chrome() # type: WebDriver is Chrome
browser.get("https:URL")
if option == 'number':
 nums = ['111', '123', '456']
 searchbox = browser.find_element_by_id("searchPattern")
 noUser = browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="includeError"]/div')
 try:
 for num in nums:
 searchbox.send_keys(num)
 browser.find_element_by_xpath('//[@id="User"]/input[2]').click()
 time.sleep(4)
 user_links = ['photos', 'message', 'mails']
 for url in user_links:
 if url in user_links:
 browser.find_element_by_link_text(url).click()
 time.sleep(4)
 elif url not in user_links:
 print "No users found"
 browser.switch_to_window(browser.window_handles[0])
 time.sleep(5)
 browser.find_element_by_id('searchPattern').clear()
 except noUser:
 print "no users"

• Dev Bin: The alert is not a pop up but just a text alert on the page " User not found "
• Dev Bin: If a user is found, the user details are displayed with the links for that user Photos Message mails
• sameer joshi: please post console error
• Dev Bin: I was able to fix the code by looking up the error text in the html source.

Answer 1

The below code resolved my issue:

error = " No users found"
if error in page_source:
 print " error to console"
else:
 // my code user defined action

The above code ignores the error if the error was there and continued with the search function.