'str' object is not callable

Question

Not quite understanding why I am getting this trace error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "S:/Personal Folders/Andy/Python Projects/Salesforce BZ API/Automated Reports.py", line 15, in <module>
    parse = br.soup("find('div')")
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\spynner\browser.py", line 409, in _get_soup
    return self._html_parser(self.html)
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

Here is my code:

from __future__ import division
#from __future__ import unicode_literals
from __future__ import print_function
import spynner
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

#Loading up Salesforce

br = spynner.Browser()
#br.debug_level = spynner.DEBUG
br.create_webview()
br.show()
br.set_html_parser("BeautifulSoup")
br.load("https://login.salesforce.com/")
parse = br.soup("find('div')")
print(parse)
br.browse()
br.close()

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 08 '11 at 21:06

5

It looks like you're setting the HTML parser to the string "BeautifulSoup", not to BeautifulSoup. I don't have it installed so I can't test whether it works, but it's worth a try.

answered Aug 08 '11 at 21:06

DSM

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Thanks, this appears to be it! Wow, I feel like such an idiot! – Steven Matthews Aug 08 '11 at 21:17
No idiocy involved, only inexperience. :^) If you can see now what the error message is trying to tell you, then you've won more than you lost in time. – DSM Aug 08 '11 at 21:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 08 '11 at 21:05

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I took a quick look here, and it seems that soup is not a function but a property.

answered Aug 08 '11 at 21:05

Ken Wayne VanderLinde

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Forgive my newness to programming and Python in general, but what is the difference and how does one go about using them? – Steven Matthews Aug 08 '11 at 21:07
@Andrew: unfortunately, I'm a python noob as well, running of my knowledge of *other* languages. – Ken Wayne VanderLinde Aug 08 '11 at 21:20

'str' object is not callable

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