On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:16:48AM -0500, Donald Stufft wrote: > Personally I think that none of the -O* should be removing asserts. It feels > like a foot gun to me. I’ve seen more than one codebase that would be > completely broken under -O* because they used asserts without even knowing > -O* existed.
I agree that many people misuse asserts. I agree that this is a problem for them. But I disagree that the solution is to remove what I consider to be a useful feature, and a common one in other languages, just to protect people from their broken code. I prefer to see better efforts to educate them. To that end, I've taken the liberty of sending a post to python-l...@python.org describing when to use asserts, and when not to use them: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2013-November/660401.html I will continue to use my best effort to encourage good use of assertions in Python. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
