In <7xzlbkti7z....@ruckus.brouhaha.com> Paul Rubin <http://phr...@nospam.invalid> writes:
>kj <no.em...@please.post> writes: >> This implies that code that uses *any* assert statement (other than >> perhaps the trivial and meaningless ones like "assert True") is >> liable to break, because whatever it is that these assert statements >> are checking "on some occasions, ... would go unchecked, potentially >> breaking your code." >Yes, that implication is absolutely valid. The purpose of assert >statements is to debug the code, by checking for conditions that are >supposed to be impossible. Precisely. As I've stated elsewhere, this is an internal helper function, to be called only a few times under very well-specified conditions. The assert statements checks that these conditions are as intended. I.e. they are checks against the module writer's programming errors. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
