[Python] How to fix WebDriver.__init__( ) got an unexpected argument 'executable_path' error...

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A little backstory: I'm still new in all this coding/programming stuff. I'm now trying to learn how to automate something using python. So I tried automating account creating for Instagram (without any ill intentions ofcourse), and now I've come to this point where I am confused.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
import random
import string
import time

def generate_random_email():
return ''.join(random.choices(string.ascii_lowercase, k=10)) + '@example.com'

def generate_random_username():
return 'user_' + ''.join(random.choices(string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits, k=8))

def generate_random_password():
return ''.join(random.choices(string.ascii_letters + string.digits + '!@#$%^&*', k=12))

def generate_birth_date():
year = random.randint(1980, 2000)
month = random.randint(1, 12)
day = random.randint(1, 28)
return (year, month, day)

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-notifications")
chrome_options.add_argument("user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='chromedriver', options=chrome_options)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 15)

driver.get('https://www.instagram.com/accounts/emailsignup/')

try:
cookie_button = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[text()='Allow essential and optional cookies']")))
cookie_button.click()
except TimeoutException:
print("Cookie acceptance button not found. Proceeding without it.")

email = generate_random_email()
email_field = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.NAME, 'emailOrPhone')))
email_field.send_keys(email)

full_name = ' '.join(random.choices(string.ascii_letters.split(), k=2)).title()
name_field = driver.find_element(By.NAME, 'fullName')
name_field.send_keys(full_name)

username = generate_random_username()
username_field = driver.find_element(By.NAME, 'username')
username_field.send_keys(username)

password = generate_random_password()
password_field = driver.find_element(By.NAME, 'password')
password_field.send_keys(password)

year, month, day = generate_birth_date()
birthday_fields = wait.until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, "//select[@title='Year:'] | //select[@title='Month:'] | //select[@title='Day:']")))
birthday_fields.send_keys(str(year)) # Year
birthday_fields.send_keys(str(month)) # Month (numeric)
birthday_fields.send_keys(str(day)) # Day

time.sleep(2)

submit_button = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[text()='Sign Up']")
submit_button.click()

try:
error_element = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, 'ssfErrorAlert')))
print("Error during signup:", error_element.text)
except TimeoutException:
print("Form submitted. Check for verification steps (if any).")

input("Press Enter to close the browser...")
driver.quit()


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