Filling out create form with values from a list/dict using webdriver

Question

I've located all inputs on a create form with on my application by:

_inputs =find_elements_by_xpath("//form[@id='createForm']//input")

and I got my list of values that I need to input :

_data = ['selenium', 'selenium test', 'John Dow']

what I'd like to do is to send keys to each of those webelements from list using a loop, what I wrote

for x in range(len(self._data)):
    try:
        _inputs[x].send_keys(self._data[x])
    except Exception:
        continue
    finally:
        _all_inputs[0].send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

sending RETURN should trigger the submission of the form

but I'm getting selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with

When I'm sending keys individually it's not an issue but well that's not what I'm trying to do here.

Answer 1

You can use visibility_of from expected_conditions to make sure the element is visible

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)

for x in range(len(self._data)):
    try:
        wait.until(expected_conditions.visibility_of(_inputs[x]))
        _inputs[x].send_keys(self._data[x])
    except Exception:
        continue
    finally:
        _all_inputs[0].send_keys(Keys.RETURN)