On 05/17/2020 10:18 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
But it's good that we have the assert statement, because it makes it easy to write safe code and so people are encouraged to do so.
I could not disagree more strongly with this. Every time I have seen assert used it was in such a way that the program could easily silently produce erroneous results or fail far from the error if asserts were turned off. -- ~Ethan~ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/SKVOX2A5MNN3V7IGEUAYC56BSXB2TCXQ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
