fgisslen - selenium TimeoutExeption handling

web_address_navigator.py

def web_adress_navigator(browser, link):
    """Checks and compares current URL of web page and the URL to be navigated and if it is different, it does navigate"""
    total_timeouts = 0

    try:
        current_url = browser.current_url
    except WebDriverException:
        try:
            current_url = browser.execute_script("return window.location.href")
        except WebDriverException:
            current_url = None

    if current_url is None or current_url != link:
        # handle famous timeout exceptions during `GET` method
        while True:
            try:
                browser.get(link)
                break

            except TimeoutException as exc:
                if total_timeouts >= 7:
                    raise TimeoutException("Retried {} times to GET '{}' webpage "
                       "but failed out of a timeout!\n\t{}".format(total_timeouts,
                             str(link).encode("utf-8"), str(exc).encode("utf-8")))
                total_timeouts += 1
                sleep(2)

        # update server calls
        update_activity()
        sleep(2)