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

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2006-12-07, Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>>Yeah, it hit me seconds after I had posted my message. =0 Why
>>didn't I think of it during the 30 minutes I spent banging my
>>head against the keyboard going nuts over this 'bug' ...
>
> The same reason you can sometimes find what's wrong just by
> explaining the symptoms to another guy... Having to put things
> sorted and simple to understand by another, just makes you
> think clearly on the problem...

I read a story (was it by Brian Kernighan?) the they required
programmers to tell their problem to a stuffed animal first
before bothering another programmer who might be in the middle of
something. The stuffed animal often provided all the assistance
that was needed.

-- 
Neil Cerutti