Anything equivalent to cassert in C++?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.580.1258492799.2873.python-list at python.org>,
Peng Yu  <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>There are some assertion code (testing if a condition is false, if it
>is false, raise an Error object) in my python, which is useful when I
>test my package.  But such case would never occur when in the produce
>code. If I keep them in if statement, it will take some runtime. I'm
>wondering what is the practice that take care of the assertion code in
>python.

You should be very careful not to put unit tests in asserts because that
prevents you from testing your application under optimization.
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