On 11/28/2014 05:30 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > alister wrote: > >> And as may wiser people than me have already highlighted Assertions can >> be switched off in python which means they cannot be relied upon in >> production code invalidating the authors suggestion that they can >> automate bug reports & "Extend testing into the lifetime of the product" > > I'm afraid that you appear to have missed the point of assertions as tests. > Since they should never be used to *enforce* correct behaviour, but only to > *verify* behaviour is correct (i.e. as a form of testing), it doesn't > matter if you disable them. If I turn them off, all that happens is that > the tests won't run *for me*. The software will still be just as correct, > or just as buggy, regardless of the assertions.
And you have missed the point that building an intricate error-reporting, program restarting framework on top of 'assert' is ridiculous. -- ~Ethan~
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