[Python-Dev] assert(blah blah) in the C code base

[Ethan Furman]

Greetings!

I'm working on Issue19995, and I'm seeing stuff like this:

   assert(PyLong_Check(val));

My question is:  Are these asserts in final production code?

My possible scenarios are:

   - the assert isn't in place
   - the assert isn't working correctly
   - PyLong_Check isn't working correctly
   - the non-ints are being converted before the function
     containing the assert is called

The fourth possibility is the most likely, but since I don't know how 
assert() works in C I can't be sure.

Any quick pointers?

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~Ethan~