On 03Mar2021 16:50, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 2021-03-03, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 1:40 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I thought the entire point of asser being a keyword was so that if you >>> disable asserts then they go away completely: the arguments aren't >>> even evaluated. >> >> It depends on what the point of "removing the assertions" is, but >> yes, that will indeed still evaluate the arguments. IMO the cost of >> running assertions isn't that high compared to the value of keeping >> them (which is why I never run -O), and the performance argument is >> a weak one compared to the much stronger value of having the actual >> failing expression available in the exception report. > >Good point. I had forgotten about having the expression available in >the exception output. That's definitly valuable.
Did we all see the recently announced ycecream PyPI module? Very cool! See: https://github.com/salabim/ycecream Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
