selenium clear() command doesn't clear the element

Question

I have been writing selenium scripts for a while in Java. I encountered a very weird issue today.

Here is the issue: I cleared a text field using webelement.clear()

Answer 1

Another way that worked for me in python, but is not what you would call elegant:

for _ in range(4):
    risk_percentage.send_keys(Keys.BACK_SPACE)