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| Date | Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:00:12 -0800 |
| From | Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> |
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On 12/23/2013 07:10 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <mailman.4553.1387804133.18130.python-list@python.org>,
> Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>
>> On 12/22/2013 08:57 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
>>> In article <52b7a0e4$0$29994$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>,
>>> 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 :-)
>>>
>>> Yes :-)
>>>
>>> More specifically, the assertion exception will get caught way up in
>>> some django middleware which will log a stack trace and return a HTTP
>>> 50-something. This will typically be followed by somebody like me
>>> noticing the stack dump and trying to figure out WTF happened.
>>
>> This is completely misusing what assertions are for. I hope this bit of
>> middleware (or django itself) is very clear
>> about never running with assertions turned off.
>
> Sigh. Sometimes I'm not sure which is worse. The anti-assertion
> zealotry on this list, or the anti-regex zealotry.
I am not a zealot (I'm not! Really!! ;) . I just find it alarming to have major pieces of software rely on a feature
that can be so easily tuned out, and it wasn't clear from your comment that it was /any/ exception.
Mostly I don't want newbies thinking "Hey! I can use assertions for all my confidence testing!"
Just as one data point OpenERP, which has a lot of good features, unfortunately uses assert to test user input. :(
--
~Ethan~
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