Python stuck at Selenium webdriver.Chrome()

Question

After I import webdriver from selenium and call webdriver.Chrome(), Python gets stuck.

>>> from selenium import webdriver
>>> d = webdriver.Chrome()

No output, no error messages, nothing. If I do:

> chromedriver --version
ChromeDriver 2.16.333243 (0bfa1d3575fc1044244f21ddb82bf870944ef961)

this implies that chromedriver has been installed and is on $PATH.

Any idea why I'm stuck at webdriver.Chrome()?

Answer 1

I've encountered the same issue and it found out to be incompatible of the driver supported version and the chrome version.

In the Downloads page in ChromeDriver website lists the driver versions and the corresponding supported Chrome version. Make sure that the driver version is compatible to the Chrome version you're using.

By the way, the downloading page to previous versions is here. The page can be accessed by clicking the "Latest Release" link, then click the "Parent Dictionary". To me it's not that straightforward so I'll just leave a note here.