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Subject: Re: cascading python executions only if return code is 0
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On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Anyway, I may be completely misinterpreting what I'm reading. Perhaps the
> assertion is checking a function invariant ("one of the strategies will
> always succeed") in which case you're doing it exactly right and I should
> shut up now :-)

Or maybe it has a lengthy piece of error trapping code that wasn't
germane to the discussion, and for brevity was squished down to a
quick little assert :)

ChrisA