Phillip B Oldham wrote:
I'm building an RPC service, and I need to validate the input and provide informative error messages to users. What would be the best way to do this? Simple `if` statements each raising a custom exception? `assert` statements inside a try/except block to "translate" the assertion errors into something more meaningful?
Use 'if'. Asserts are for debugging program logic (and hence can be optimized away), not for user input.
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