Both tests fail with a similar backtrace. imported/selenium/py/test/selenium/webdriver/common/typing_tests.py::testNumberpadAndFunctionKeys[WebKitGTK] def testNumberpadAndFunctionKeys(driver, pages): pages.load("javascriptPage.html") element = driver.find_element(by=By.ID, value="keyReporter") element.send_keys( "abcd{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}abcd" .format( Keys.MULTIPLY, Keys.SUBTRACT, Keys.ADD, Keys.DECIMAL, Keys.SEPARATOR, Keys.NUMPAD0, Keys.NUMPAD9, Keys.ADD, Keys.SEMICOLON, Keys.EQUALS, Keys.DIVIDE, > Keys.NUMPAD3 ) ) E UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ue024' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) imported/selenium/py/test/selenium/webdriver/common/typing_tests.py::testArrowKeysAndPageUpAndDown[WebKitGTK] def testNumberpadAndFunctionKeys(driver, pages): pages.load("javascriptPage.html") element = driver.find_element(by=By.ID, value="keyReporter") element.send_keys( "abcd{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}abcd" .format( Keys.MULTIPLY, Keys.SUBTRACT, Keys.ADD, Keys.DECIMAL, Keys.SEPARATOR, Keys.NUMPAD0, Keys.NUMPAD9, Keys.ADD, Keys.SEMICOLON, Keys.EQUALS, Keys.DIVIDE, > Keys.NUMPAD3 ) ) E UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ue024' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)