TimeOut Exception Not Working, Element Not Interactable Selenium - selenium

Question

In this section of my text, I am looping to select all check boxes across a number of pages (successful). When the next button is no longer enabled (and thus no more pages to turn, try command), I want to click the apply button. There are two different apply buttons, a visible and invisible one. The way my text is written, I receive an element not interactable exception, and thus my timeout exception isn't seen through. That's unexpected because the button I am trying to click is clearly visible and clickable (manually).
Original website: https://icem.data-archive.ac.uk/#step2
Does anyone have an idea what could be causing this element not interactable? I have attached a photo of the HTML of the two applied buttons: https://i.stack.imgur.com/xBl9X.png
Note: introducing WebDriverWait on the exception command just induces another timeoutexception.
county_pop < 1000000:
while True:
checklist = webD.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[#class="modal-content"]//input[#class="ng-pristine ng-valid"]')
for elem in checklist:
elem.click()
try:
WebDriverWait(webD, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[not(contains(#class, "disabled"))]/a[.="Next"]'))).click()
except TimeoutException:
webD.find_element_by_xpath('//div[#class="modal-content"]//div[#class="col-sm-3 text-left visible-xs"]/button').click()
Script until then:
import selenium
import time
from selenium import webdriver as wd
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.common.exceptions import StaleElementReferenceException, NoSuchElementException, NoSuchWindowException
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
chrome_path = r'C:\webdrivers\chromedriver.exe'
webD=wd.Chrome(executable_path=chrome_path)
webD.get('https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/myaccount')
WebDriverWait(webD, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(
(By.XPATH, '//*[#id="myaccount-login"]/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/form/div/p/button'))).click()
WebDriverWait(webD, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(
(By.XPATH, '//*[#id="username"]'))).send_keys('ukd1217078879')
WebDriverWait(webD, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(
(By.XPATH, '//*[#id="password"]'))).send_keys('Census4Me!')
webD.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div/div/div[2]/div[1]/form/div[6]/button').click()
webD.get('https://icem.data-archive.ac.uk/#step1')
#YEARS LOOP BEGINS
for year in [1851, 1861, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911]:
webD.find_element_by_xpath("//b[#class='ng-binding' and text()='{}']/preceding-sibling::input[#type='radio']".format(str(year))).click()
# Continuing to England & Step 2, Opening Counties Variable, More Variables
WebDriverWait(webD, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//b[#id = "country_england"]/preceding-sibling::input'))).click()
webD.find_element_by_xpath('//html/body/div/section/section[1]/article[2]/div/div/button').click()
WebDriverWait(webD, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(
(By.XPATH, '//*[#id="county_category"]/button[1]'))).click()
WebDriverWait(webD, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(
(By.XPATH, '//*[#id="county_category"]/div[2]/div/div[2]/button'))).click()
# COUNTIES LOOP BEGINS
conto = 1
count = conto
while count > 10: #Getting to the correct county page
webD_find_element_by_link_text('Next').click()
count = count - 10
for i in range(count,11):
#Clicking correct county
WebDriverWait(webD, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[3]/div/div/div[3]/div[{}]/label/input'.format(count)))).click()
#Adding 1 to absolute count, conto
conto = conto + 1
#Store variables
county_text = webD.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[3]/div/div/div[3]/div[{}]/label'.format(count)).text
county_pop = int(county_text.split("(")[-1].replace(")","").replace(",", ""))
print(county_pop)
#Apply County Selection, open HISCO & More Variables
WebDriverWait(webD, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[contains(.,'Apply')]"))).click()
WebDriverWait(webD, 20).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//span[#class = "ice-allow-download-alert ng-animate ng-hide-remove ng-hide-remove-active"]')))
WebDriverWait(webD, 20).until(EC.invisibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//span[#class = "ice-allow-download-alert ng-animate ng-hide-remove ng-hide-remove-active"]')))
WebDriverWait(webD, 20).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//b[text()[contains(.,"HISCO classified occupation")]]/..'))).click()
WebDriverWait(webD, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[#id="workhistoryunit_category"]/div[2]/div/div[2]/button'))).click()
#HISCO OCCUPATION SELECTION LOOP
if county_pop < 1000000:
while True:
checklist = webD.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[#class="modal-content"]//input[#class="ng-pristine ng-valid"]')
for elem in checklist:
elem.click()
try:
WebDriverWait(webD, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[not(contains(#class, "disabled"))]/a[.="Next"]'))).click()
except TimeoutException:
webD.find_element_by_xpath('//div[#class="modal-content"]//div[#class="col-sm-3 text-left visible-xs"]/button').click()

Answer 1

temp = True
if county_pop < 1000000:
while temp:
checklist = webD.find_elements_by_xpath(
'//*[#class="modal-content"]//input[#class="ng-pristine ng-valid"]')
for elem in checklist:
elem.click()
try:
WebDriverWait(webD, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(
(By.XPATH, '//*[not(contains(#class, "disabled"))]/a[.="Next"]'))).click()
except:
WebDriverWait(webD, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(
(By.XPATH, '//button[contains(text(),"Apply")]'))).click()
temp = False
in while loop you had True which will make it run infinitly , change it to a varaible Temp and set it to false as soon as the next button is not clickable.
Also use webdriver wait and click on the first button