On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are some assertion code (testing if a condition is false, if it > is false, raise an Error object) in my python, which is useful when I > test my package. But such case would never occur when in the produce > code. If I keep them in if statement, it will take some runtime. I'm > wondering what is the practice that take care of the assertion code in > python.
Read the manual: http://docs.python.org/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-assert-statement "In the current implementation, the built-in variable __debug__ is True under normal circumstances, False when optimization is requested (command line option -O). The current code generator emits no code for an assert statement when optimization is requested at compile time." HTH, ~Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
