Python / Selenium is not filling the tilde character (~)

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Python / Selenium is not filling the tilde character (~)

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I'm trying to use Python / Selenium / Webdriver to automatically populate an input field on my Chrome page. However, I am not able to use the "send_keys" command to fill in the tilde character (~).

Here's my code:

import os
import sys
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select

browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"chromedriver.exe")

browser.get("https://mywebpageaddress")

browser.find_element_by_id("username").send_keys('charles~18')

The page is populated as "charles18" instead of "charles ~ 18".

Note: You can manually type "charles ~ 18" in this field via the browser.

Does anyone know how to solve it? Thanks!

python selenium-webdriver

asked by anonymous 15.02.2018 / 00:15

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It may be because send_keys sends the keys through a layer before the system keyboard driver. Since your keyboard has the Brazilian layout, the "~" is a mute key.

Just try to send the "~" twice, just like typing:

browser.find_element_by_id("username").send_keys('charles~~18')

(Of course, if this is the case, the problem will be serious if the same code has to run in the cloud, for example on the server or in an instance of Travis)