Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
> I am talking specifically about this kind of assert: > > assert 1 <= month <= 12, 'month must be in 1..12' > > I think it should be replaced with: > > if month < 1 or month > 12: > raise ValueError('month must be in 1..12') I reviewed the asserts. Value range checking asserts appear in non-public functions which are not called with out-of-range values by the module code. Therefore they can only be triggered if there is a bug in the future version of datetime.py. This is expressly what asserts are for. There is another type of asserts that should be either removed or modified: assert daysecondswhole == int(daysecondswhole) # can't overflow Since int is long in 3.x, this assert does not check anything. We can replace this with assert daysecondswhole.bit_length() <= 32 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7989> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com