Weird failure in Selenium

[glestwid]

Hi ,

I'm trying to run this script

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
import time
 
# Configure Chrome options (optional)
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--start-maximized")  # Open browser maximized
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
options.add_argument("--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0")
options.add_argument("--headless")  # Run in background (no GUI)
options.add_experimental_option("detach", True)
 
drv = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()),options=options)

But when I run it on my machine it fails

Error:
C:\tmp>python e.py                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                                                                                File "C:\tmp\e.py", line 22, in <module>                                                                                                                                                                                                          drv = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()),options=options)                                                                                                                                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                                                                                                                                                      File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 45, in __init__                                                                                                                                                super().__init__(                                                                                                                                                                                                                             File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chromium\webdriver.py", line 53, in __init__                                                                                                                                              self.service.start()                                                                                                                                                                                                                          File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 105, in start                                                                                                                                                    self._start_process(self._path)                                                                                                                                                                                                               File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 206, in _start_process                                                                                                                                           self.process = subprocess.Popen(                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                                                                                                                                                                                                              File "C:\Python311\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1022, in __init__                                                                                                                                                                                     self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,                                                                                                                                                                                  File "C:\Python311\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1491, in _execute_child                                                                                                                                                                               hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,                                                                                                                                                                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                                                                                                                                                                                  OSError: [WinError 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application 

Attempt to run this

python -c "import sys; print(sys.version);"

produces this:

Output:
3.11.0 (main, Oct 24 2022, 18:26:48) [MSC v.1933 64 bit (AMD64)]        

What I'm supposed to do to have it fixed? This machine has both Chrome 141.0.7390.54 (Official Build) (64-bit) and FF 140.3.0esr (32-bit)

[Larz60+]

Are you using a 64 bit machine?

The OSError: [WinError 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application error typically indicates a mismatch in architecture (32-bit vs. 64-bit) or a conflict in the execution environment, particularly when dealing with Python or other applications that rely on external libraries (DLLs).

see: OSError for full details, and how to fix.