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Wiki pages in English, Danish and Bahasa Malaysia for the home page and the three lecture steps, with a sidebar and the screenshots; README with the screenshots table and wiki links; review RC-011. Task: MIL-003#1
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**English** · [Dansk](Step-2-Search-da) · [Bahasa Malaysia](Step-2-Search-ms)
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# Step 2: Type into an input and press Enter
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## The lecture
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The lecture types "Python" into the Wikipedia search bar. The bar is found by its `name` attribute, text is typed with `send_keys`, and the special Enter key is sent with the `Keys` class from `selenium.webdriver.common.keys`, which submits the search.
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## The code
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```python
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def search_for(browser, term=SEARCH_TERM):
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search_input = browser.find_element(BY_NAME, SEARCH_INPUT_NAME)
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search_input.send_keys(term)
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search_input.send_keys(KEY_ENTER)
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```
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`KEY_ENTER` is the same value as `Keys.ENTER`, again guarded by a unit test.
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## What the browser shows
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## What we gained
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- `By.NAME` finds an input by its `name` attribute.
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- `send_keys` types text into an input, and also sends special keys such as Enter.
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- Sending Enter submits a search like a person would, without finding a search button.
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