String Exceptions (PEP 352)

[bruno at modulix]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> bruno at modulix <onurb at xiludom.gro> writes:
> 
>>What's wrong with:
>>
>>assert foo and bar and i > 10, \
>>  "if foo and bar i must not be greater than 10"
> 
> 
> It doesn't necessarily do anything.  With optimization enable, assert
> is a no-op.

quoting the OP (emphasis is mine):
"""
I use string exceptions if the condition for an *assertion* is
to complex:
"""

-- 
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"