On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > More specifically, the assertion exception will get caught way up in > some django middleware which will log a stack trace and return a HTTP > 50-something. This will typically be followed by somebody like me > noticing the stack dump and trying to figure out WTF happened. > > Assertions are great tools. People should use them more often.
You do have to be careful though, because they can be compiled out. If it really is a "can't happen", then sure, but encouraging people to use them for potentially obscure cases may be dangerous - if you never happen to hit on it during development and then run with assertions disabled, you won't see that stack trace. However, they're still a lot more executable than other forms of comment :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
