I love assert

[Ben Finney]

Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:

> We love 'assert' so much that we have 20-30 'assertXYZ' variations in
> unittest.

A function will not be disabled by a run-time option to the Python
interpreter.

> The statement 'assert expression' is almost equivalent to
>
> if not expression: raise AssertionError('expression')

With the important difference that this will be active no matter what
options Python's interpreter is run with. That makes it quite a
different proposition from using ‘assert’ statements.

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Ben Finney