Feb 28, 2011 · Python’s assert statement is a debugging aid, not a mechanism for handling run-time errors. The goal of using assertions is to let developers find the likely root cause of a bug …

I share your annoyance that the python assert has unique syntax relative to all other python programming constructs, and this syntax has yet again changed from python2 to python3 and …

108 I have been learning Python and the raise function* and assert are really similar (what I realised is that both of them crash the app, unlike try - except) and I can't see a situation …

Assert isn't considered safe in production code; it's tempting to write assert x<5 and then be very surprised when x is more than 5 and the software continues running because Python was run …

Sep 5, 2012 · Note that Unicode strings which only contain ASCII will fail if checking types in this way, so you may want to do something like assert type(s) in (str, unicode) or assert …

Is there a performance or code maintenance issue with using assert as part of the standard code instead of using it just for debugging purposes? Is assert x &gt;= 0, 'x is less than zero' better or

Jul 21, 2012 · Houston, we have a problem. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/poop.py", line 2, in <module> assert "birthday cake" == "ice cream cake", "I wanted pie" AssertionError: I …

When you use for item in o for some iterable object o, Python calls iter(o) and expects an iterator object as the return value. An iterator is any object which implements a __next__ (or next in …

Apr 28, 2017 · How do I disable assertions in Python? That is, if an assertion fails, I don't want it to throw an AssertionError, but to keep going. How do I do that?

Aug 30, 2011 · Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "[python path]\lib\site-packages\mock.py", line 891, in assert_any_call '%s call not found' % …