On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 16:56 +0000, Brett Cannon wrote: > > My question is how is this different to running with -O which leaves > the assert statement out of the bytecode and so you avoid any run- > time cost of the statement entirely?
Not so much different, except that: - the switch won't need to be on the command line - the 2 different asserts would be considered differently by developers/users : * debug assert, for helping developing a new features, used with debug- builds * runtime assert, for ensuring correctness and/or diagnosing issue with production/release-builds on-site. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
