NoSuchElementException: Unable to select dropdown item - python-3.x

Question

I'm unable to select the dropdown.
The code for the dropdown is
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr class="navigatorTable">
<td nowrap="" align="left">
<span class="dropdownbutton showSingle bound">
<a><img class="vAlignSub" src="/images/add.gif"> Create Account <img src="../../images/actionitems_collapse.gif"></a>
</span>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
And in python I have the following code.
select = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[#class='dropdownbutton show fork']")).click()
select.select_by_value('1')
But I'm getting
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element:
Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath",
"selector":"//span[#class='dropdownbutton showSingle bound']"}
Please help me with the code. Thanks

Answer 1

You can't use the Select in this case as though the class name says it's a drop down but it's span not an select html node. So, you can't use Select approach here.
You have to make sure the script waits until the span element is loaded.
#Imports required
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as E
Now get the element and click on it (check the xpath)
ele = WebDriverWait(driver,30).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"//span[#class='dropdownbutton showSingle bound']//img")))
ele.click()