On May 28, 2012, at 12:33 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
>It's a mistake to write
>
> assert(tilsit, 'Never at the end of the week, sir.')
>
>instead of
>
> assert tilsit, 'Never at the end of the week, sir.'
>
>The former assertion is always true, and thus no-op. Python >= 2.6 emits a
>SyntaxWarning about this.
Nice catch. I've seen something similar quite often, but written correctly,
it's a good way to provide meaningful longer assertion messages, without any
ugly backslashes. The *right* way to write this would be:
assert tilsit, (
'Never at the end of the week, sir.')
Cheers,
-Barry
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