How do I validate to see if a text field has the value that I typed in?

I've very new to Python and Selenium and I think I need to use the Assert command to verify a text field has what I typed in via Selenium.

I've searched for an hour and can't find the answer.

Here is my code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains as AC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select, WebDriverWait
driver = webdriver.Ie()
driver.get(“https://bie.farmersinsurance.com/”)
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, “/html/body/div/form/table/tbody/tr[5]/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr[1]/td[1]/input”))).send_keys(“tess893”)
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath(“/html/body/div/form/table/tbody/tr[5]/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr[1]/td[1]/input”)

assert element.text == “tess893”

Here are my results:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File “c:\Users\uswarv41.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2018.12.1\pythonFiles\ptvsd_launcher.py”, line 45, in <module>

main(ptvsdArgs)

File “c:\Users\uswarv41.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2018.12.1\pythonFiles\lib\python\ptvsd_main_.py”, line 265, in main

wait=args.wait)

File “c:\Users\uswarv41.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2018.12.1\pythonFiles\lib\python\ptvsd_main_.py”, line 256, in handle_args

run_main(addr, name, kind, *extra, **kwargs)

File “c:\Users\uswarv41.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2018.12.1\pythonFiles\lib\python\ptvsd_local.py”, line 52, in run_main

runner(addr, name, kind == ‘module’, *extra, **kwargs)

File “c:\Users\uswarv41.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2018.12.1\pythonFiles\lib\python\ptvsd\runner.py”, line 32, in run

set_trace=False)

File “c:\Users\uswarv41.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2018.12.1\pythonFiles\lib\python\ptvsd_vendored\pydevd\pydevd.py”, line 1283, in run

return self._exec(is_module, entry_point_fn, module_name, file, globals, locals)

File “c:\Users\uswarv41.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2018.12.1\pythonFiles\lib\python\ptvsd_vendored\pydevd\pydevd.py”, line 1290, in _exec

pydev_imports.execfile(file, globals, locals)  # execute the script

File “c:\Users\uswarv41.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2018.12.1\pythonFiles\lib\python\ptvsd_vendored\pydevd_pydev_imps_pydev_execfile.py”, line 25, in execfile

exec(compile(contents+“\n”, file, ‘exec’), glob, loc)

File “c:_TMP\Test2.py”, line 18, in <module>

assert element.text == “tess893”

AssertionError

I don’t know why am I getting an AssertionError. Based on what I read, it should not throw any errors.

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