[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-3562879 ] win32com and PAMIE 3

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Bugs item #3562879, was opened at 2012-08-29 08:34
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>Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Raveesh (spaniard81)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: win32com and PAMIE 3

Initial Comment:
I am trying to run the Simple Example to automate a google search on "Python"
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2009-March/007279.html

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from PAM30 import PAMIE

ie = PAMIE()
ie.navigate("google.com")
ie.setTextBox("q", "python")
ie.clickButton("Google Search")
ie.clickLink("Python Programming Language -- Official Website")

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I have the exact same setup as mentioned in the note by Rob Marchetti. Note:This version only only works with Python 3.0 on Windows and
requires Mark Hammond's pywin32 for Python3.0 - pywin32-213.win32-py3.0.exe

But i get the following error:   
TypeError: getElementsByTagName() takes exactly 1 positional argument (2 given)

Details:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "testPAM.py", line 10, in <module>
    ie.setTextBox("q", "python")
  File "C:\Users\raveesh\Dropbox\myCode\SSSB\PAM30.py", line 2093, in setTextBox
    foundElement = self.getTextBox(name)
  File "C:\Users\raveesh\Dropbox\myCode\SSSB\PAM30.py", line 1717, in getTextBox
    foundElement = self.findElement("input", "id;name;value", name)
  File "C:\Users\raveesh\Dropbox\myCode\SSSB\PAM30.py", line 445, in findElement
    elements = self.getElementsList(tag)
  File "C:\Users\raveesh\Dropbox\myCode\SSSB\PAM30.py", line 939, in getElementsList
    elements = self._ie.Document.getElementsByTagName(tag)
TypeError: getElementsByTagName() takes exactly 1 positional argument (2 given)

Python on my machine: Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
 

The bug has also been reported on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11580340/typeerror-with-pamie with no solution!

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>Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2012-09-16 16:55

Message:
I'll try and look into this soon.

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Comment By: Jérome Laheurte (fraca7)
Date: 2012-09-16 02:20

Message:
This is still "pending"... Should I open another bug report for my own
situation ?

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Comment By: Jérome Laheurte (fraca7)
Date: 2012-08-30 04:51

Message:
This has nothing to do with Python 3 or PAM. I get the same error using
this script (with Python 2.2, win32all build 210, as well as Python 2.5 and
win32all build 217). It only happens with MSIE 9. Fun thing is that on a
site like Baidu (commented line here), which uses compatibility mode IFAIK,
it works. Tested on Win7 Ultimate 32 bits.


import win32com.client
import time

ie = win32com.client.Dispatch('InternetExplorer.Application.1')
try:
    ie.Visible = 1
    ie.Navigate("http://www.google.com")
    # ie.Navigate("http://www.baidu.com")

    while ie.Busy:
        time.sleep(1)

    print ie.Document.getElementsByTagName("a")
finally:
    ie.Quit()


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Comment By: Raveesh (spaniard81)
Date: 2012-08-30 02:22

Message:
i am running this on a 64bit Win7, Intel machine, if that has anything to
do with this.

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Comment By: Raveesh (spaniard81)
Date: 2012-08-30 02:21

Message:
Hi, following you suggestion i upgraded to Python 3.x. Here is the exact
version:
Python 3.2.3 (default, Apr 11 2012, 07:15:24) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
on win32
And i have installed pywin32-217.win32-py3.2 from sourceforge

I still get the same TypeError: getElementsByTagName() takes exactly 1
positional argument (2 given)



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Comment By: Roger Upole (rupole)
Date: 2012-08-29 09:03

Message:
The first thing to try is using a newer version of Python 3.  There were
enough problems with Python 3.0 that pywin32 is no longer released for it.


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