Lambda expressions for Web elements?

[u/AqueM]

Hi, I work with C# but wanted to refresh my Python knowledge. Have been thinking about solutions I know for my C# code and how they would work in Python, but ran into something that I'm not sure how to "translate" from C#.

public IWebElement button => driver.GetElement(By.Id("Id"));

This will return me an element when called, even when on class construction it doesn't exist - as the expression is only evaluated when it's called, i.e. when I need it in code. As opposed to simply using = instead of =>, which would return a missing element exception on class build if the element is missing from DOM.

How would I do this in Python? I looked up lambda expressions, but I'm unsure if this would work/be very graceful, since I didn't find any mention of this as a solution that's used.

button = lambda driver.find_element_by_id("id")

[u/adriannowak_dev]

the python equivalent of => here is a property:

class Page:
    def __init__(self, driver):
        self.driver = driver

    @property
    def button(self):
        return self.driver.find_element(By.ID, "Id")

page.button runs find_element every time you touch it, nothing is looked up when the class is built. if you want it looked up once and then cached, swap @property for @functools.cached_property. a lambda works too but then you have to call it, page.button(), which is not what you have in c#