Display wait time WebDriverWait using selenium python

Question

I'm interesting in getting the time waited until an object was clickable on the page. So once the element is clickable a metric is displayed showing how long it took for the element to become active.

try:
    WebDriverWait(self.driver,  10, poll_frequency=0.5).until( lambda d: self.submit_button)
except TimeoutException:
    assert False

Above is the code that I am using to poll for the element, but I'm looking for a way to get time waited metric out.

Any suggestions ?

Answer 1

You will not get the exact time, as because you have polling every N seconds and the overall wait. But you can have the average approximation. It's not only for Selenium purposes, but you can use import time, for example.

• just before executing the command add: start = time.time()

• and right after the command: end = time.time()

• then, the needed value will be print end - start