[Python-Dev] (#19562) Asserts in Python stdlib code (datetime.py) (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Nov 16 17:34:58 CET 2013


On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:16:48 -0500 Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

Personally I think that none of the -O* should be removing asserts. It feels like a foot gun to me. I’ve seen more than one codebase that would be completely broken under -O* because they used asserts without even knowing -O* existed.

Originally it was probably done so as to mimick C, where compiling in optimized mode will indeed disable any assert()s in the code.

Regards

Antoine.



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