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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:41:22 -0700
Subject: Re: I love assert
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Anton <anschatten@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 2:05:17 PM UTC-8, Ian wrote:
>> You don't need to remove it. Just reorganize it to make sure it
>> indicates actual exhaustion of possibilities. E.g. using the "assert
>> False" pattern from your post:
>>
>> if status == OK:
>>     ...
>> elif status == ERROR:
>>     ...
>> elif status == WARNING:
>>     ...
>> else:
>>     assert False
>
> If the code is run optimized and asserts are ignore CONFUSED statement would still not be handled and you will not know about it.
> I would do something like:

There's no way to make the CONFUSED status be handled without actually
changing the code. The difference is that this version will not
incorrectly treat CONFUSED as WARNING; it just won't do anything at
all if the code is optimized.