Question

I am doing a test development tutorial for Django. http://www.tdd-django-tutorial.com/tutorial/1/

When I run a test, I get a problem with find_element_by_link_text. The error shows:

find_element_by_link_text - TypeError: Object of type 'WebElement' has no len()

The part of the test that is failing is this one:

    polls_links = self.browser.find_element_by_link_text('Polls')
    self.assertEquals(len(polls_links), 2)

If I remove those lines the tests work properly, the Polls model is added on the admin. In the admin site, during Selenium test, there are 2 links with the text ‘Polls’.

The problem does not seem to be that it is not recognizing them, the problem seems to be what find_element_by_link_text returns…I don’t know

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I did some research and apparently it has to do with Selenium driver for Firefox, but I have not been able to clear it up.

Answer 1

This line is your problem.

polls_links = self.browser.find_element_by_link_text('Polls')

You need to add the .text method to return the text of the element and not the element itself.

polls_links = self.browser.find_element_by_link_text('Polls').text