How to invoke Chromedriver from Windows Subsystem for Linux for Selenium (should work with Firefox too) from Stack Overflow: Using BashOnWindows with Selenium? #1169

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• Makes me want to get a real Linux machine where these kludges aren’t necessary :-) i.e. WSL is a gateway drug to using real Linux!
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With the regular Windows environment, in my Python script I'd normally have:

webdriver.Chrome()

This works as I've added c/Python34/Scripts/ in my path (which is where I placed chromedriver.exe

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Unfortunately, most Linux tools think that chromedriver and chromedriver.exe are different executables :-)

One possible workaround (I haven't tried it myself): You could create a text file /mnt/c/Python34/Scripts/chromedriver and populate it with the following:

#!/bin/sh
chromedriver.exe "$@"

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