How to disable assert statements inside a module?

[Pearu Peterson]

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Skip Montanaro wrote:

>     Pearu> So, I would like to disable the assert statements in one module
>     Pearu> while in others, that are under development, assert statements
>     Pearu> are enabled.  Is it possible? I am using Python 2.2.
> 
> This comes to mind:
> 
>     s/assert /pass; #assert/
> 
> :-)

Thanks :-)

I now tried that. It turns out that it does not help much. python -O must
do something more than just disabling assert statements. So, let me
rephrase my question:

  Is it possible to turn on the optimization in one module while
  in others it is off (so that their assert statements are in effect)?

Pearu