Getting error str object is not callable in find by xpath

[sumandas89]

Here is my code segment -

for clk in range(1, int(lim)):
    for i in range(1, 101):
        tab_str = '//*[@id="tbody_other_search"]/tr['
        tab_str = tab_str + str(i) + ']/td[1]'
        print(tab_str)
        driver.find_element_by_xpath(tab_str).text()
        '''if int(num) % 100 == int(en_dig):
            print(num)'''
        driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="names_load_next"]/a/i').click()
    WebDriverWait(driver,5)

I confirmed that the correct xpath is generated in tab_str by the printing the xpath but getting the error for the line -

driver.find_element_by_xpath(tab_str).text()

and here is the error -

Error:
driver.find_element_by_xpath(tab_str).text()
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

What is the reason of error? please share with me.

[mlieqo]

You are trying to get text by calling it as a function, but it's just a string.

Use this instead:

driver.find_element_by_xpath(tab_str).text

[sumandas89]

You are trying to get text by calling it as a function, but it's just a string.

Use this instead:

driver.find_element_by_xpath(tab_str).text

This is not a good opinion because I also tried this but getting suggestion in IDE that "This statement seems no effect". The .text will not be fruitful until it is not assigned to any variable. I used the statement like below -

driver.find_element_by_xpath(tab_str)

but the error was also arise.
Now I find the reason behind the error, I did a little mistake with the indentation the code should be like below instead of the previous one I post-

for clk in range(1, int(lim)):
    for i in range(1, 101):
        tab_str = '//*[@id="tbody_other_search"]/tr['
        tab_str = tab_str + str(i) + ']/td[1]'
        '''print(tab_str)'''
        num = driver.find_element_by_xpath(tab_str).text
        print(num)
    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="names_load_next"]/a/i').click()
    WebDriverWait(driver,5)

And thanks for sharing your suggestion

[mlieqo]

I was only explaining why are you getting the error that you wrote, what you do with it is not my concern. And the reason of your error was because you used:

driver.find_element_by_xpath(tab_str).text()

instead of

driver.find_element_by_xpath(tab_str).text

nothing else. That obviously doesn't mean that you have no other errors in your code.