Ethan Furman wrote:
>> Sigh. Sometimes I'm not sure which is worse. The anti-assertion
>> zealotry on this list, or the anti-regex zealotry.
>
> I am not a zealot (I'm not! Really!! ;) . I just find it alarming to
> have major pieces of software rely on a feature that can be so easily
> tuned out, and it wasn't clear from your comment that it was /any/
> exception.
>
> Mostly I don't want newbies thinking "Hey! I can use assertions for all
> my confidence testing!"
>
> Just as one data point OpenERP, which has a lot of good features,
> unfortunately uses assert to test user input. :(
Put the following at the beginning of every affected module:
try:
assert 0
except AssertionError:
pass
else:
raise AssertionError("won't run with assertions turned off")
:)
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