[Python-ideas] Runtime assertion with no overhead when not active

[Eloi Gaudry]

On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 07:37 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > In Lisp this would be easy. :-)
> > 
> > and he already has a diff ready for review if needed (basically
> > very
> > similar to the current 'assert' implementation :)
> 
> That seems premature. There is not even a hint of agreement that such
> a feature would be useful *in general* (I'm not doubting your
> situation) and worth our limited volunteer developer resources to
> maintain, document etc. for decades to come.

I didn't mean to push too fast, just to show how things could be
implemented and maybe clarify my comments/statements.