In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeremy Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:50:35 +0000, John J. Lee wrote:
> > What I don't understand about py.test (and trying it out seems
> > unlikely to answer this) is why it uses the assert statement.
> > unittest used to do that, too, but then it was pointed out that that
> > breaks when python -O is used, so unittest switched to self.assert_
> > &c. Does py.test have some way around that?
>
> "Don't use -O because it doesn't do anything significant?"
>
> Is this an issue in practice? (Honest question.) If -O did something
> interesting I might use it, but I don't think it does.
The following program produces different output depending on whether you
run it with -O or not:
try:
assert 0
print "I am running with -O"
except AssertionError:
print "I'm not"
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