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Re: Assertions are bad, m'kay?

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On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:

>
> Assertions are not bad! They're just misunderstood and abused.

> You should read this guy's blog post on when to use assert:
>
> http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/676.html

Nice article.

BTW, what about:

if value >= 3:
   raise AssertionError('value must be >= 3')

?

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Assertions are bad, m'kay? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 18:16 +1100
  Re: Assertions are bad, m'kay? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-07 11:11 +0000
    Re: Assertions are bad, m'kay? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 22:24 +1100
    Re: Assertions are bad, m'kay? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 16:15 -0800
      Re: Assertions are bad, m'kay? Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2014-03-08 01:26 +0100
      Re: Assertions are bad, m'kay? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-08 14:44 +0000
    Re: Assertions are bad, m'kay? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-03-08 11:22 +1100

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