status of Programming by Contract (PEP 316)?

[Jorge Godoy]

Carl Banks wrote:

> This is starting to sound silly, people.  Critical is a relative term,
> and one project's critical may be anothers mundane.  Sure a flaw in your
> flagship product is a critical problem *for your company*, but are you
> really trying to say that the criticalness of a bad web search is even
> comparable to the most important systems on airplanes, nuclear reactors,
> dams, and so on?  Come on.

Who said they were the same?  I said that just because it doesn't take lives
it doesn't mean it isn't important.  I wasn't going to reply to not extend
this, but this misunderstanding of your was bugging me.

I use Python on systems that deal with human health and wrong calculations
may have severe impact on a good sized population.  Using Python.

As with nuclear reactors, dams, airplanes and so on we have a lot of
redundancy and a lot of checkpoints.  No one is crazy to take them out or
even to remove some kind of dispositive to allow manual intervention at
critical points.