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The current formatting of words is quite inconsistent, adding spaces for some results, but not for others,
I believe this is because different sources have different formatting. This results in unaligned output, as shown:

This should be easy to fix by stripping the data collected, removing spaces and/or newlines and making sure that all of them are aligned.

Add searching from other drivers to make it more compatible and accessible on other platforms that don't have Chrome Installed

Definitions often break when searching for specific phrases due to google's new design.
Try searching using id and/or use next siblings in selenium to make sure that the right element is being selected and displayed

• Clear the error list on each run
• Check whether there are single or multiple words and change the "Getting Answers" message accordingly

update.py gets the required zip file and extracts it but doesn't replace the old driver. So I updated with the new driver in #8 . So do check it !

One of the major problems right now is performance. The program has to go through each step for each of the words, before it moves on to the next one.

I've wanted to look into async calls but haven't gotten around to doing it. The current code will most likely need to be structured, as the order of operations needs to be taken into account. i.e. The program should only retrieve the definition for a word from one source, rather than getting definitions from several sources. Ideally, it should also detect how much additional load is being put on the system and add threads accordingly, allowing for more performance as well as accessibility.

If anyone is interested in implementing this, please let me know.

Currently, there's a single function called get_ans() which is not ideal from a development perspective.
It would be worth breaking up the statements in the try and except blocks into separate functions to make it easier to maintain and debug.

When the definition for a word is not able to be obtained, it adds it to the list of failed words. When the program is re-run by pressing any key, the list does not get cleared and the failed words are stored in the list for the rest of the session. Should be easy to fix by clearing the list every time the user wants to rerun the program.