Jean-Michel Pichavant a écrit : (snip)
I personally never use asserts in python, cause I will end up handling with asserts what I should in fact handle properly in what you call the production code.
Not the same concern. Assertions are here for 1/ documention of expected state / value / pre|post conditions etc, and 2/ automatic verification of these expectations *during development* - so you can immediatly spot and fix failed expectations. IOW, it's about the "this should not, no way, never possibly happen" cases, not the "this may eventually happen" ones - which indeed require "proper" handling at the level you expect them.
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