mktime() like function to produce GMT?

[Mark Nottingham]

Ahh, thanks; was looking in the library reference (don't use the lang ref
nearly enough).


> http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/assert.html
>
>     "Assert statements are a convenient way to insert
>     debugging assertions into a program"
>
>     "The current code generator emits no code for an
>     assert statement when optimization is requested at
>     compile time"
>
> in other words, this is not a great way to
> use assert...