Am 03.03.2021 um 00:24 schrieb Chris Angelico: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 10:22 AM Mirko via Python-list > <python-list@python.org> wrote: >> >> Am 02.03.2021 um 23:09 schrieb Stestagg: >>> Ignoring the question about this feature being particularly useful, it >> >> It is useful because "assert" is primarily (if not purely and >> exclusive) a debugging tool during development and testing. >> >> In production code you don't want any asserts, but logging. Having >> "assert" being a function would make it much harder to get rid of it >> in production code. >> > > Really?
Yes. > if PRODUCTION: > def assert(*a, **kw): pass > > would work if it were a function :) With the "if PRODUCTION" being superfluously in the production code (not to mention the possible NameError otherwise). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
