Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
Since failed asserts print the failed assert, repeating the assertion in a
message is useless.
>>> assert 1 <= i
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
assert 1 <= i
AssertionError
It is already obvious that i must be >= 1. So I would reject the patch.
> And isn't this too much defensive programming?
Whether stdlib python code should have asserts is a more interesting question.
I will ask on pydev.
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