ImportError: cannot import name 'webdriver' from 'selenium' error using Selenium and WebDriver through Python

Question

I wanted to code a program with selenium, so I wanted to test it but:

from selenium import webdriver

When Im running this program, it says:

ImportError: cannot import name 'webdriver' from 'selenium'

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Answer 1

This error message...

ImportError: cannot import name 'webdriver' from 'selenium'

...implies that there was an ImportError when you tried to import webdriver from the selenium module.

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Reason

This ImportError is observed when you try to execute the line:

from selenium import webdriver

without installing Selenium.

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Solution

The very first step to use Selenium will be to install Selenium Python bindings using the following command:

pip install -U selenium

or upgrade Selenium Python bindings using the following command:

pip install -U selenium

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Reference

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

• Python : no module named selenium
• Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement selenium; No matching distribution found for selenium while installing Selenium on Python3.6.5