python - How to iterabily enter a list of strings into a search box with selenium? -

assume have list of terms:

a_lis = ['cat', 'dog', 'fish', 'worm', ..., 'ferret'] 

also, have website have search box:

how can pass , search each element of a_lis search box?. after looking @ docs tried this:

from selenium import webdriver selenium.webdriver.common.keys import keys   driver = webdriver.firefox()   e in a_lis:     driver.get("https:www.example.com")     inputelement = driver.find_element_by_id("searchbox")     inputelement.send_keys(e)     inputelement.send_keys(keys.enter) driver.back() 

however, not working. since pass string elements of a_lis 1 one without doing search. thus, how can pass each element 1 one , search search box?. in other words main objective search each string in a_lis individually search box.

update

i tried inside loop:

driver.execute_script("window.history.go(-1)") 

nonetheless, did not worked.

i made example reference. go stack overflow, search each tag synchronously , close driver.

from selenium import webdriver selenium.webdriver.common.keys import keys time import sleep  driver = webdriver.firefox() driver.get("http://stackoverflow.com/") query in ["java","python"]:     driver.find_element_by_tag_name("input").send_keys(query)     driver.find_element_by_tag_name("input").send_keys(keys.enter)     # alternatively, find search button element , click it.     # additional functionality here     sleep(5)     print "query link: ",driver.current_url     driver.back() sleep(1) driver.quit() 

• important things note, every iteration need return search page driver.back() , find search bar element again driver.find_element avoid stale element reference error.