Craig Allen wrote: >> since both are equally informative when it comes to tracing the faulty >> assignment. >> > > steve, they are not equally informative, the assertion is designed to > fire earlier in the process, and therefore before much mischief and > corruption can be done compared to later, when you happen to hit the > missing attribute.
I disagree. The assertion may fire a few lines before the non-existent attribute access, but typically the damage is done in an assignment before the function that raises the error is even called. And I therefore suspect that a whole load of heavyweight type-checking will be done for no very good reason. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
