The closest you may ever get to something like this is a clean separation
of -O flags instead of the current -O/-OO options. That way you can flip on
everything *but* assertion removal. But a per-file directive I don't see
happening, and even the flag separation has never caught on enough for
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 11:25:39AM +0200, Alex Hall wrote:
> I understand this, but I still don't understand in what situation people
> use assertions 'correctly'.
https://import-that.dreamwidth.org/676.html
> To me an assert implies:
>
> 1. If the condition is false: that's bad, and the
On 5/18/20 5:25 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:03 AM Richard Damon
> mailto:rich...@damon-family.org>> wrote:
>
> On 5/17/20 5:04 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
> > Some people (like myself, or the coworkers of [this
>
>
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:03 AM Richard Damon
wrote:
> On 5/17/20 5:04 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
> > Some people (like myself, or the coworkers of [this person](
> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/thread/PLXOXKACKGXN4ZKISDVXLKMFIETWTF63/))
> just like to use asserts as a
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 09:04:50PM -, Alex Hall wrote:
> Some people (like myself, or the coworkers of [this
> person](https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/thread/PLXOXKACKGXN4ZKISDVXLKMFIETWTF63/))
>
> just like to use asserts as a convenient way to check things.
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 8:04 AM Richard Damon wrote:
> If you really what what you describe, add the following to your code:
>
> if not __debug__:
>
> raise AssertionError, "Please don't disable assertions"
>
> (This won't enable the assertions, but will let the user know that you
> need them
On 5/17/20 5:04 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
> Some people (like myself, or the coworkers of [this
> person](https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/thread/PLXOXKACKGXN4ZKISDVXLKMFIETWTF63/))
> just like to use asserts as a convenient way to check things. We don't want
> asserts
