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On 27/12/2013 01:44, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>> In article <mailman.4567.1387819120.18130.python-list@python.org>,
>>   Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>>
>>> Mostly I don't want newbies thinking "Hey!  I can use assertions for all my
>>> confidence testing!"
>>
>> How about this one, that I wrote yesterday;
>>
>>          assert second >= self.current_second, "time went backwards"
>>
>> I think that's pretty high up on the "can never happen" list.
>
> assert second >= self.current_second, "user changed the clock"
>
> ChrisA
>

assert "shoot admin who gave user too much privilege" ?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence