Unable to use certain charaters on imap outlook connection

• Operating system and architecture: Windows 10 x86_64

I am having trouble logging in to the imap server "outlook.office365.com:993", basically sometimes the passwords i use contain special characters (-"_?$%& and such) that make the login fail with error: imaplib.IMAP4.error: b'LOGIN failed.' i know that this is a problem with the characters, because it appears only when the password contains some of them, while when the password is only numbers/letters it works fine. This is the code that is causing the issue:

def get_email(username, password):
    imap = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(host="outlook.office365.com", port=993)
    imap.login(username, password)

i have tried many different things:
-Escaping the characters with \ and another time with ^
-Writing double quotes around the special characters
and more

online there is almost no documentation/examples on it. I also am not able to change the password to the account, as much as i would like to. And it also logins fine on the outlook site

For testing purposes here is a password similar to that one:

mozz@-rell@?9torey

Commencez par les appels à imaplib.IMAP4_SSL et login présentés dans le rapport, puis reproduisez l’échec avec outlook.office365.com:993 en utilisant des mots de passe avec et sans caractères spéciaux. Comparez la réponse observée LOGIN failed et déterminez si le problème vient de imaplib ou de l’interaction avec le serveur ; le travail est terminé lorsqu’un diagnostic reproductible est établi, accompagné d’un test de régression ciblé ou d’une raison documentée pour laquelle aucune modification de la bibliothèque ne s’applique.