Incorrect password string gets entered by send_keys in selenium python

Somehow send_keys enters repeat password or string other than mentioned password leading login failure.
Tried adding explicit wait(), driver.clear() but does not work.
Here is a sample code in Python –

Approach 1 –

driver = webdriver.chrome(executable path)
driver.maximize__window()
driver.get(address)

password = "xyz"
field1 = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located(By.XPATH, <xpath of the password field>)
actionChains.move_to_element(field1).click()
actionChains.move_to_element(field1).send_keys(password).perform()

driver.find_element(By.ID, "Login-button").click()

Here instead of “xyz” probably “xyzxyzxyzx” string gets added to the password field(cannot decode as password gets masked).

Please suggest.

Approach 2 –

Also, another try with below code somehow concatenates username to the password while entering password.

username = driver.find_element(By.ID,"USERNAME").click()
actionChains.send_keys("test")

password = driver.find_element(By.ID,"PASSWORD").click()
actionChains.send_keys("xyz")

actionChains.perform()

This snippet results into –

Username as “test”
Password as “testxyz”

Expected output is:

Username as “test”
Password as “xyz”

Answer

Sometimes it auto fills the last input. I get around it by just adding “Keys.BACK_SPACE*20” into the send keys brackets

.send_keys(Keys.BACK_SPACE*20, "xyz")

you will also need to import the Keys library:

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys