On 2021-09-07 11:12:37, Juancarlo Añez wrote:
> Basically, the proposal is to allow for an exception type and value to be
> specified in *assert*, instead of the customary:
>
> if not assertion:
>
> raise ValueError('a message')
What's wrong with:
> if __debug__:
> if not assertion:
> raise Exception
>From what I can tell, this is optimised away when optimisations are
turned on.
Maybe wrap that in a function?
> Perhaps the assertion would not go away with *-OO* when an exception type
> is specified?
Isn't the whole point of assertions that they go away with
optimisations? If the code cannot be optimised away, raise the exception
at runtime, it's just regular code.
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