[Python-ideas] hookable assertions - to support testing utilities and debugging

[Ronny Pfannschmidt]

the idea is to call the method with the assertionerror instance
so instead of directly doing a raise theerror,

python would call __raise_assertion__(theerror)

this composes nicely with the proposal for introspectable assertions

On Thursday, February 19, 2015 1:54:06 PM CEST, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:25:34 +0100
> Ronny Pfannschmidt
> <opensource at ronnypfannschmidt.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> the idea is to have the assert statement call a global method,
>> just like import does
>
> How would that work? Does it give the AST to the global method?
> Something else?
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>