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| Date | 2014-11-13 09:58 +1100 |
| Subject | Re: I love assert |
| From | Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.15754.1415833135.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Apart from idiomatic style, there is no difference between
>
> # never reached
>
> assert False
>
> raise RuntimeError('Unreachable code reached')
>
> 1 / 0
>
> print("Hello world")
>
> since, after all, that line is never reached!
If it truly is never reached, there's no difference between any of the
above and "pass". (With the possible exception of 1/0, which might
plausibly be optimized to a constant, which would mean it'd throw an
error at compile time.) But what if, one day, it is reached? What
should happen? RuntimeError implies that there's an error that
couldn't be detected until run time. AssertionError might not get
raised. Printing "Hello world" to standard out will almost certainly
be misinterpreted. ZeroDivisionError makes almost no sense for
"shouldn't happen". Think about what your code ought to do *if it is
reached*, because if you really don't care about that case, you won't
have a line of code at all.
ChrisA
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Re: I love assert Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-11-12 14:56 -0800
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Re: I love assert Anton <anschatten@gmail.com> - 2014-11-12 14:04 -0800
Re: I love assert Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-13 00:34 +0200
Re: I love assert Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-13 09:43 +1100
Re: I love assert Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-14 22:15 +1100
Re: I love assert Richard Riehle <rriehle@itu.edu> - 2014-11-14 14:09 -0800
Decorators (was: Re: I love assert) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-15 00:18 +0200
Re: Decorators Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-11-14 22:37 +0000
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Re: Decorators (was: Re: I love assert) Richard Riehle <rriehle@itu.edu> - 2014-11-14 18:19 -0800
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Re: Decorators (was: Re: I love assert) Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-11-14 20:30 -0600
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Re: I love assert MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-11-29 02:56 +0000
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Re: I love assert Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-29 21:40 +1100
Re: I love assert MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-11-29 19:49 +0000
Re: I love assert Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-29 14:02 +1100
Re: I love assert Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-11-29 14:33 -0800
Re: I love assert Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-30 19:18 +1100
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