[Tutor] Impossible Else as Exception

[eryksun]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org> wrote:
>
> Going back to the original question: perhaps an assertion here would
> be sufficient.  Something like:
>
>     assert False, "Impossible situation"

Like "if __debug__" statements, assert statements are skipped by the
compiler if optimization is enabled. If you want an AssertionError
here even for optimized code, then explicitly raise
AssertionError('Impossible situation').