On the bug tracker, there's a discussion about the current behaviour of the assert statement, where shadowing AssertionError will change the behaviour of the assertion.
https://bugs.python.org/issue34880 Currently, assert does a LOAD_GLOBAL on AssertionError, which means if you shadow the name, you get a different exception. This behaviour goes back to Python 1.5. I'm looking for guidance here, is this the intended behaviour, or an accident? Should it be changed to better match other builtins? (For example, shadowing iter doesn't effect for loops.) Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
