selecting date using selenium and python

Question

I am automating the MakeMyTrip application for selecting a respective departure date. suppose I want to select 20 January 2020 how do I select

 driver.find_element_by_id("departure").click()
    month_from = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@class='DayPicker-Months']").text
    print(month_from)

error:

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementClickInterceptedException: Message: element click intercepted: Element is not clickable at point (822, 226). Other element would receive the click: ...

Answer 1

There is an animation when you land the page. Before using the element, you have to wait for it to be clickable.

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(
 EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "departure")))