[Tutor] Impossible Else as Exception

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 9 April 2013 20:22, Jordan <wolfrage8765 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to know what exception should be raised if there is a bug in my code
> that allows an else statement to be triggered, because the else condition in
> my code should be impossible, unless there is an error in my code.  What
> exception should I raise so that if my code is wrong it will raise an
> exception which will give me a trace back?  Which would be most Pythonic?
>
> Example:
>
> if condition is 1:
>     do something with 1
> elif condition is 2:
>     do something with 2
> else: # Impossible unless the code above is flawed.
>     Raise Exception

AssertionError is raised when an assert statement fails. Since this
situation is essentially an implicit assert it would make sense to use
that.


Oscar