Re: [Python-ideas] Specify an alternative exception for "assert"

On Mon, May 2, 2016, at 11:14, Guido van Rossum wrote:

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com> wrote:

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Other than the fact that this would completely fail when run with -O...

But maybe that's fine, or intended.

I can see a fair number of uses for this, including subclasses of AssertionError.

I think this would be an attractive nuisance, and if it's implemented at all it should forbid types that are *not* subclasses of AssertionError in order to mitigate that.