Hotmail login script

[Kevin Mok]

Hi , 

I am new to automation scripting so my question might sound stupid.

I can't seem to figure what might be the error in my script, I m using Python to write the script. It looked like passing the username wasn't an issue but when passing the password was where the error occurred.

 Script:

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException

url = "https://www.hotmail.com"

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:/Users/xxx/Downloads/Chromedriver.exe")

driver.get(url)

button = driver.find_element_by_link_text("Sign in")

button.click()

username = driver.find_element_by_id("i0116")

username.send_keys("")

button = driver.find_element_by_id("idSIButton9")

button.click()

password = driver.find_element_by_name("passwd")  {also tired: driver.find_element_by_id("i0118") 

password.send_keys("")

button = driver.find_element_by_id("idSIButton9")

button.click()

Error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\PYTHON\secondtest\src\secondtest.py", line 24, in <module>

    password.send_keys("")

  File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 479, in send_keys

    'value': keys_to_typing(value)})

  File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 633, in _execute

    return self._parent.execute(command, params)

  File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute

    self.error_handler.check_response(response)

  File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response

    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)

selenium.common.exceptions.StaleElementReferenceException: Message: stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document

  (Session info: chrome=70.0.3538.77)

  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.43.600210 (68dcf5eebde37173d4027fa8635e332711d2874a),platform=Windows NT 10.0.17134 x86_64)

Thanks in advance for the help!