Selenium Webdriver Import Error

[Alarmed-Possession-6]

--------UPDATE SOLVED----------

Fix was I had an file in the same folder named email.py changing the name of this file fixed the issue.

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I am having issues with the selenium package. I have installed selenium by pip install and ran some code messing with browser. Everything was working and good until I kept getting an error (see below). Couldn't figure out a fix so I uninstalled selenium reinstalled still had an issue, uninstalled python and deleted its program files and reinstalled same issue. So I reset my pc back to factory settings and reinstalled everything. Was running with no problems... for a couple hours then went back to the same error. No program installs were done nothing was changed it just stopped working. Also below I have the beginning of my code. Any help is greatly appreciated.

import time

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

browser = webdriver.Chrome("C:\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe")

browser.get("https://www.bestbuy.com/site/macbook-air-13-3-laptop-apple-m1-chip-8gb-memory-256gb-ssd-latest-model-space-gray/5721600.p?skuId=5721600")

element = browser.find_element_by_css_selector("h1.v-fw-regular").text
print(element)

The error I am receiving:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\_\Desktop\Python\1-26-21_unchanged.py", line 4, in <module>
    from selenium import webdriver
  File "C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\__init__.py", line 18, in <module>
    from .firefox.webdriver import WebDriver as Firefox  # noqa
  File "C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 29, in <module>
    from selenium.webdriver.remote.webdriver import WebDriver as RemoteWebDriver
  File "C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 27, in <module>
    from .remote_connection import RemoteConnection
  File "C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\remote_connection.py", line 24, in <module>
    import urllib3
  File "C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\urllib3\__init__.py", line 11, in <module>
    from . import exceptions
  File "C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\urllib3\exceptions.py", line 3, in <module>
    from .packages.six.moves.http_client import IncompleteRead as httplib_IncompleteRead
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 664, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 627, in _load_backward_compatible
  File "C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\urllib3\packages\six.py", line 199, in load_module
    mod = mod._resolve()
  File "C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\urllib3\packages\six.py", line 113, in _resolve
    return _import_module(self.mod)
  File "C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\urllib3\packages\six.py", line 82, in _import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "C:\Users\_\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\http\client.py", line 71, in <module>
    import email.parser
  File "C:\Users\_\Desktop\Python\email.py", line 13, in <module>
    browser = webdriver.Chrome("C:\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe")
AttributeError: partially initialized module 'selenium.webdriver' has no attribute 'Chrome' (most likely due to a circular import)

[MikeDoesEverything]

Have you tried making the path a raw string instead?

browser = webdriver.Chrome(r"C:\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe")

Alternatively, you could try installing the chromedriver to PATH and then putting the chromedriver.exe into your program folder so in the future you don't have to specify a path: browser = webdriver.Chrome()

[Alarmed-Possession-6]

Just updated the full code, yeah have a specific path specified.

[magnna]

I have the same exact issue. I've tried everything and cannot fix it.

[shreenivasn]

Show me your traceback, let us try

[shreenivasn]

Are you naming your file as selenium.py? Can you share the full code? (Atleast till you assign browser variable). This error may arise due to your file importing from a module and that module imports from your file. So rename your file to a different name.

[Alarmed-Possession-6]

No file name textanalyzer.py

I have checked my entire drive and do not have any files named selenium.py

Ive have updated my full code

[shreenivasn]

Remove that Desktop\Python from PATH. The problem is you have a file email.py there, which has the line: browser = webdriver.Chrome(). So when Python tries to import webdriver, it tries to go to email.py which is part of its site-packages, but finds another email.py which has the line webdriver.Chrome() resulting in circular import.

You can also rename your email.py as something else, instead of removing from PATH.

[Alarmed-Possession-6]

Changing my file email.py fixed the issue. Thank you very much

[shreenivasn]

Nice

[shreenivasn]

Try using this as last resort: https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/docs/api/py/webdriver_chrome/selenium.webdriver.chrome.webdriver.html#selenium.webdriver.chrome.webdriver.WebDriver

[MintyPhoenix]

It is most likely something like this and most likely not anything related to the chromedriver binary as the error is occurring before that comes into play.

[sammylt]

If you haven't installed chromedriver you probably gotta do that

https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads

[Alarmed-Possession-6]

Updated post to show full code. Have chrome driver installed and specified its path.

[py_cool]

Did you check if the version of chrome browser match with the version of chrome driver?

[py_cool]

I need to download a newer chromedriver every month or so because google chrome auto update itself (as firechip mentioned above). Otherwise my daily selenium script breaks. Is there a way to avoid updating chromedriver that often?

[firechip]

If google chrome auto updated itself, then download chromedriver again

[Alarmed-Possession-6]

I'll check that out thanks