> While it can indeed, make otherwise stable projects with "nop"s assert sudden failing, that should be a trivial fix for any non-unmaintained project.
Agreed. This would be like a bug fix. I don't think anyone is depending on the current behavior (beside explicit tests in linters, which is only a handful (2-3)). +1 to the PEP as well, which I find this restriction unnecessary. On Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 4:20 PM Joao S. O. Bueno <jsbu...@python.org.br> wrote: > > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 at 08:39, Victor Stinner <vstin...@python.org> wrote: > >> Does someone know if linters like pylint or pylakes current warn on >> "assert(test, msg)" statements? >> >> If a project use such assertions which are always true, they can start >> failing wit the PEP 679, right? > > > OTOH, any assertion which start failing in this way, is a statement which > _should_ have been failing from the start, and was being ignored up to > this change. > > While it can indeed, make otherwise stable projects with "nop"s assert > sudden failing, that should be a trivial fix for any non-unmaintained > project. > > +1 to the change > > > > >> Hopefully, the fix is easy: removing >> the parenthesis give the same behavior on old and new Python versions. >> >> (it will behave the same just if the first expression is actually truish) > > >> Is it possible to run a code search on PyPI top 5000 projects to see >> if such always-true assertion is common or not? >> >> Victor >> >> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 1:22 AM Pablo Galindo Salgado >> <pablog...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > I would like to start a discussion about a small PEP proposal to allow >> parentheses in >> > assert statements to fix a common gotcha with assert statements. >> > >> > Link to the PEP: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0679/ >> > >> > Please, redirect all discussions to: >> > >> > >> https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-679-allow-parentheses-in-assert-statements/13003 >> > >> > as I will not be monitoring answers to this thread. >> > >> > Thanks, everyone for your time! >> > >> > Regards from cloudy London, >> > Pablo Galindo Salgado >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org >> > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org >> > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ >> > Message archived at >> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/I7MKCD3GHJXCERFCZ2FD3X7IPAX6ASVK/ >> > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> >> >> >> -- >> Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ >> Message archived at >> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/LFQGI43BH3SWKHRBPO7T3DC6SEU5HMQ3/ >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/SFBWV5SAFYRFEASNJZJIRY4VUPIEOX24/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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