Takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given error using Selenium Python

Question

Hello I was trying to click on button male on website: https://fs2.formsite.com/meherpavan/form2/index.html?1537702596407 But it gives me the error:

TypeError: element_to_be_clickable() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given.

The code is

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC


driver=webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="D:\ChromeDriverExtracted\chromedriver")
driver.get("https://fs2.formsite.com/meherpavan/form2/index.html?1537702596407")

WebDriverWait(driver, 2).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(By.XPATH, "//type[@name='RESULT_RadioButton-7_0']")).click()

Answer 1

You need to pass a tuple within element_to_be_clickable() as follows:

EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//type[@name='RESULT_RadioButton-7_0']"))

However, your working line of code will be:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//label[@for='RESULT_RadioButton-7_0']"))).click()

Browser Snapshot:

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Moreover, with selenium4 the following line:

webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="D:\ChromeDriverExtracted\chromedriver") 

is now associated with a DeprecationWarning as follows:

DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated, please pass in a Service object

So you need to pass an instance of Service class as an argument and your effective code block will be:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

s = Service('D:\ChromeDriverExtracted\chromedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=s)
driver.get("https://fs2.formsite.com/meherpavan/form2/index.html?1537702596407")
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//label[@for='RESULT_RadioButton-7_0']"))).click()

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References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

• init() takes 2 positional arguments but 3 were given using WebDriverWait and expected_conditions as element_to_be_clickable with Selenium Python
• Use Selenium with Brave Browser pass service object written in python

Answer 2

It's a tuple you should pass there,

EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//type[@name='RESULT_RadioButton-7_0']")))