Py + SeleniumWebdriver - NoSuchElementException not working

Question

I can't understand why isn't this working? I know that there is no such element on this page, but NoSuchElementException isn't raised!

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException

driver = webdriver.Chrome("C:\\Users\\chromedriver.exe")
driver.get('https://www.kinopoisk.ru/')
try:
    driver.find_element_by_name('kp_query1')
except NoSuchElementException:
    print('WTF')
print('Ok!') 

Answer 1

A bit of more information about why you felt NoSuchElementException does't rises would have helped us to construct a more canonical answer.

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However, I took your code and when executed NoSuchElementException was properly caught and the except{} block was properly executed.

• Code Block:

  driver.get('https://www.kinopoisk.ru/')
  try:
      driver.find_element_by_name('kp_query1')
  except NoSuchElementException:
      print('WTF')
  print('Ok!') 
  

• Console Output:

  WTF
  Ok!