Selenium opens browser but returns with an error

Question

On running this code

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome("/usr/bin/google-chrome")

exits with this error after opening a browser with a new tab

File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 68, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 96, in start
self.assert_process_still_running()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 109, in assert_process_still_running
% (self.path, return_code)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Service /usr/bin/google-chrome unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 0

and after that I am unable to use the driver variable as it returns a NameError.

I installed selenium with pip and I am using python 3.5.3.

Edit 1:

I forgot to mention that i am using Ubuntu 17.04 zesty

Answer 1

While you are using Selenium 3.x.x along with the recent Google Chrome browsers, you have to download chromedriver.exe from this location place it in your system and mention the absolute location of the chromedriver binary through the argument executable_path as follows:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='/usr/bin/chromedriver')
driver.get('https://www.google.co.in')
print("Page Title is : %s" %driver.title)
driver.quit()