In article <52bd049d$0$29992$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Roy Smith wrote: > > > In article <mailman.4567.1387819120.18130.python-l...@python.org>, > > Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > > > >> Mostly I don't want newbies thinking "Hey! I can use assertions for all > >> my confidence testing!" > > > > How about this one, that I wrote yesterday; > > > > assert second >= self.current_second, "time went backwards" > > > > I think that's pretty high up on the "can never happen" list. > > Time goes backwards by one hour[1] at least once a year across most of the > world. Only if you're stupid enough to run your systems in local time. > http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-programmers-believe-a > bout-time-wisdom Most of those deal with things like daylight saving time and time zones and calendars, which are all far more complicated (and chaotic) than just keeping track of UTC timestamps. There's lists like that for names and genders too. As in, what do you mean there are people who don't have exactly two names and one gender? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
