Using pilot.click, how to select the nth item in a query?

[shapiromatron]

Sometimes when writing tests, I want to click the nth result of a selector. I can accomplish this using playwright using the nth selector; is there an equivalent way to to do this using pilot.click? Could that method be updated so that the selector could be the result of a query perhaps?

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[willmcgugan]

I think the following should work:

pilot.click(app.query("Thing")[10])

Although I could be convinced to add a parameter to click() for that. Just to make it more self documenting.

Adding the nth selector is also a possibility, just more work.

[shapiromatron]

Totally agree w/ just using an item in the list instead of a special method.

However, when I try to click an instance of a button, not a query string, I get an error:

AttributeError: 'Button' object has no attribute '__name__'. Did you mean: '__ne__'?

The docstring for pilot.click says it allows for type[Widget] | str | None, but not a Widget - it doesn't appear to be supported? As a workaround, is there a query selector like nth-of-type that I could use to get the first one?