Am I stupid or is 'assert' broken in Python 2.5??

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <1165415689.347819.129680 at 73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com>, antred wrote:

> Run the following code in your Python interpreter:
> 
> myString = None
> 
> assert( myString, 'The string is either empty or set to the None type!'
> )
> assert( myString )
> 
> 
> 
> You'll notice that the first assert doesn't do anything, whereas the
> second assert correctly recognizes that myString does not evaluate to
> true. That doesn't seem right. Surely Python should have raised an
> assertion error on the first assert statement, right??

``assert`` is a statement, not a function.  And non-empty tuples are "true":

assert (False, 'boink')

This is equivalent to ``assert True``.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch