Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> added the comment:
I think this is a bug that should be fixed. This is similar to how f-strings used to work: the generated byte code would call format(something-or-other), and if you'd defined a name "format" in your code it would fail. Now admittedly "format" is more common than "AssertionError", but in any event I don't think assert should fail because of a name you happen to be using. That's a surprising action-at-a-distance, in my mind. And I especially think that's true in the case of assert: when an assert fires, the last thing I want is something that I normally wouldn't have tested for causing me to not see what the assertion is. And, I think a broader discussion on python-dev might be useful, too, in order to get more opinions. ---------- nosy: +eric.smith _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34880> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
