How to try clicking on elements in Playwright without try except block?

Question

I have this code:

def try_close_error_popup(self):
        try:
            self.page.locator(
                self.CLOSE, has_text='Close').click(timeout=1200)
        except TimeoutError:
            LOGGER.info('Failed to click close popup button')

I noticed that the try/except blocks make my code to run much slower. Is there a way I can just try finding and element and clicking on it without getting an error?

Answer 1

Try this:

if (page.is_visible(XPATH)):
    page.click(XPATH)

Or you can make the code cleaner like this:

try:
    page.click(XPATH)
except:
    pass