On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 01:59:37 +1000 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > 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?
I would make it an implementation detail myself, i.e. any implementation is free to make it work as it prefers. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
