On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Danny Yoo <d...@hashcollision.org> wrote:
>
> Going back to the original question: perhaps an assertion here would
> be sufficient. Something like:
>
> assert False, "Impossible situation"
Like "if __debug__" statements, assert statements are skipped by the
compiler if optimization is enabled. If you want an AssertionError
here even for optimized code, then explicitly raise
AssertionError('Impossible situation').
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