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  Re: usage of try except for review. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 04:38 +1100
    Re: usage of try except for review. Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-01 23:05 +1100

#103743 — Re: usage of try except for review.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:34 AM, Ganesh Pal <ganesh1pal@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
> <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>>         Ask yourself: Will my program still work if I remove all the assert
>> statements. If the answer is "No", then you should not be using an assert.
>
> You meant if the answer is "NO" then I should be using asset ?

No, Dennis was correct. You should assume that "assert" can
potentially be replaced with "pass" and your program will continue to
work.

ChrisA

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On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 04:38 am, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:34 AM, Ganesh Pal <ganesh1pal@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
>> <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>>>         Ask yourself: Will my program still work if I remove all the
>>>         assert
>>> statements. If the answer is "No", then you should not be using an
>>> assert.
>>
>> You meant if the answer is "NO" then I should be using asset ?
> 
> No, Dennis was correct. You should assume that "assert" can
> potentially be replaced with "pass" and your program will continue to
> work.


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Steven

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