Please look at code snippet below
//implicit wait here
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://www.website-test.com")
search_field = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id="term']")
search_field.send_keys("some text")
search_field.submit()
for i in range(10):
print(str(driver.execute_script("return document.readyState")))
sleep(0.1)
driver.quit()