The reason why it won't raise the AssertionError is because the condition in the assert statement is a non-empty tuple, and its boolean value would be True, not False, which is required to raise an assertion error.
antred wrote: > Yeah, it hit me seconds after I had posted my message. =0 Why didn't I > think of it during the 30 minutes I spent banging my head against the > keyboard going nuts over this 'bug' ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list