antred a écrit : > I've noticed something odd in Python 2.5, namely that the 2 argument > version of 'assert' is broken. Or at least it seems that way to me. > > Run the following code in your Python interpreter: > > myString = None > > assert( myString, 'The string is either empty or set to the None > type!' ) assert( myString ) > > > > You'll notice that the first assert doesn't do anything, whereas the > second assert correctly recognizes that myString does not evaluate to > true. That doesn't seem right. Surely Python should have raised an > assertion error on the first assert statement, right??
That behaviour has been present in Python for a long time. Just know that assert is NOT a function, and thus it doesn't require parenthesis ( just the same as print doesn't require them ) Try without them and it'll work. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
