What happened?

Does anyone know how to setup a local development environment for Python?

There are some outdated build instructions here:

• https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/Python-Bindings

... but they no longer work. I would like to get it working then update those instructions.

The goal:

I have the selenium repo cloned and all I want to be able to do is make some changes to the source code, then build the package so I can import it and use it. Ideally, it would be installed in editible mode, so I can work on the package without reinstalling it.

I can't use Bazel and all the selenium build machinery... I just want an isolated Python environment using standard Python tooling. I looked through the Bazel configs to see how it builds the Python bindings, but I can't figure out how to do the same outside of Bazel.

What I've tried:

After cloning the repo, I would think I could just create a virtual environment, install requirements, then install with pip in editible mode:

cd selenium/py python3 -m venv venv source ./venv/bin/activate pip install -r requirements.txt pip install -e . 

But this fails while building the package. It fails on the running build_rust step with the error:

distutils.errors.DistutilsFileError: can't find manifest for Rust extension `selenium.webdriver.common.selenium-manager` at path `Cargo.toml` 

Am I missing a step or some dependency?

Can anyone help me out?

How can we reproduce the issue?

Try to setup a local Python development environment.

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Operating System

Linux (Debian)

Selenium version

Python

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Are you using Selenium Grid?

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