On 4/29/2013 1:42 PM, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
2013/4/29 Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola@gmail.com>:
Consider the following:
assert \ 1 == 0, \ "error"
It will produce:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "foo.py", line 3, in <module> "error" AssertionError: error
The information about the statement which produced the exception is lost. Instead I would expect:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "foo.py", line 1, in <module> assert \ 1 == 0, \ "error" AssertionError: error
Not sure how easy this is to implement but I think it would be a good enhancement. Thoughts?
Very dubious idea, for multiple reasons given on the issue.
It seems this is already tracked in http://bugs.python.org/issue12458
For your example, the OP of that issue would replace the line '"error"' with 'assert', which would not be helpful at all. If your statement was assert some_fairly_long_expression_with_calls ==\ something_else, "error" then is would not be clear that backing up would be helpful. Terry