"Paul Rubin" <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Raymond Hettinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> When writing a large suite, you quick come to appreciate being able >> to use assert statements with regular comparision operators, debugging >> with normal print statements, and not writing self.assertEqual over and >> over again. The generative tests are especially nice. > > But assert statements vanish when you turn on the optimizer. If > you're going to run your application with the optimizer turned on, I > certainly hope you run your regression tests with the optimizer on.
I don't see why you think so. Assertion statements in the test code make it harder, not easier for the test to pass. Ditto, I believe, for any in the run code, if indeed there are any. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
