When I try to do code shown below I get error :
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
email2_elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/input[1]").text()
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This error message...
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
...implies that your program have invoked a function() which is actually a property.
As per selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement text is a property.
So, you can't invoke text() as a function. Hence you see the error.
Solution
You can use either of the following solutions:
Use
textproperty:email2_elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/input[1]").textUse
get_attribute("innerHTML")method:email2_elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/input[1]").get_attribute("innerHTML")
answered Apr 3, 2019 at 11:34
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szymond45
second method with get_atribute does same thing as just text?
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@szymond45 Yes, imo,
get_attribute("innerHTML") is much more promising.text is a property, not a function. Use it without ()
element.text
As a side note, absolute xpath "/html/body/..." is a bad approach, it makes fragile locator. You should try locating the elements by unique attribute (id, name, class etc), or atleast relative xpath.
Comments
Try this
find_element(By.XPATH, "class name")
Refer this documentation link
https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/locating-elements.html#locating-elements
