[Numpy-discussion] ANN: NumPy 1.2.0

[Charles R Harris]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:

> Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:05:09 -0600, Charles R Harris wrote:
> [clip: assert in tests]
> > Using assert for this sort of thing is a bug, assert goes away with the
> > -OO options. This needs to be fixed.
>
> "assert FOO" is used in quite many of Numpy's test cases, and it appears
> Nose endorses using assert (and uses it in its own tests).
>
> Should we go ahead and change all "assert FOO" in Numpy's tests to
> something like 'self.failUnless'?
>

I fixed the np.testing functions to use

if (foo) :
    raise AssertionError("Da Bomb")

That way no changes to exception catching are needed, but the error will
still be raised when the -OO option is used. Strictly speaking, it isn't
quite right, but so it goes...

Chuck
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