python selenium webscraping “NoSuchElementException” not recognized

Question

Sometimes on a page I\'ll be looking for an element which may or may not be there. I wanted to try/catch this case with a NoSuchElementException, which selenium

Answer 1

You sould use from selenium.common.exceptions import * and then write except NoSuchElementException

Answer 2

You need to import the exception first

from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException

and then you can reference it

except NoSuchElementException:
    # handle the element not existing