What is the most efficient way to wait for a page element (xpath) to show up in Selenium Webdriver with Python?

Question

What is the most efficient way to wait for a page element (xpath) to show up in Selenium Webdriver with Python?

webdriver wait until, how do you use it when waiting for a class type to appear?

Answer 1

I believe Selenium has inbuild methods to check if an element is enabled or displayed. Try to play around with

elem.is_enabled and elem.is_displayed

Otherwise, you can use a while loop with a try/catch:

while True:
    try:
        elem = driver.find_by....
        break
    except:
        time.sleep(1)

In this case, the script will only proceed when the element is found

:)