Assertion for python scripts

[Carl Banks]

On Nov 2, 11:22 pm, Carl Banks <pavlovevide... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2:14 pm, matthias <matthiasblankenh... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Here is my question:  How do I maintain debug / release builds that
> > allow me to switch
> > debug stmts, like assert, on / off ?
>
> If you want to distribute a single-file optimized version, perhaps
> embedding the Python code as a here-file in a shell script would work
> for you.  For example:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec python -O <<EOF
>
> assert False
>
> EOF

Not long after I made this suggestion, I suddenly found myself in a
situation where I wanted to do something like this (temporarily: I
needed to disable a pointer check that a buggy C++ extension was
causing).  Here's what I ended up with, after falling in a few pits:

#!/bin/sh
MALLOC_CHECK_=0 /usr/bin/python2.4 - "$@" <<'SCRIPT'

<script goes here>

SCRIPT


Carl Banks