Proposal: runtime validation statement

[Ville Vainio]

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Brueck <dave at pythonapocrypha.com> writes:

    Dave> distinction. That's why 'assert' as a statement makes sense
    Dave> to me too - it and validate are sort of "out of band" with
    Dave> getting the actual work done, but useful nonetheless.

Perhaps calling it _validate could imply out-of-bandness? I don't like
the idea of making the "less important" constructs statements, only
the most fundamental things should be statements. 

And we already have assert.

    Dave> It's definitely not "obvious library stuff" IMO - if nothing
    Dave> else, making you import a library just to validate
    Dave> parameters is goofy. It would be semi-tolerable (though less
    Dave> than ideal) as a builtin.
 
+1 on making it a builtin.

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