Assert/VerifyElementPresent with Python and WebDriver?

Question

I may just be confused by the change from Selenium to WebDriver and their respective documentation. In a section about test design in the documentation there is talk of usin

Answer 1

Verify the Assert

driver= webdriver.Firefox()

String x =driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='userNavLabel']")).getText();

System.out.println(x);

//Assert.assertEquals(actual, expected)

Assert.assertEquals("Anandan Aranganath", x);