PEP new assert idiom

[Terry Hancock]

On Saturday 06 November 2004 03:36 pm, Fábio Mendes wrote:
> My proposal is to add the following syntax to the language:
> 
> >>> assert (statement 1), (statement 2), ... (statement n), 'Errormsg'
> 
> Or, if the user prefers, the traditional comma rules also applies:
> 
> >>> assert \
> >>>     statement1,
> >>>     statement2,
> >>>     (...) 
> >>>     statement n,
> >>>     'Errormsg'
> 
> This simple syntax change introduces a very useful idiom for unittesting
> and may equally be useful in other kinds of code. The most problematic
> issue, I see, is the potential ambiguity a assert usage:

I don't think it gains much over what is already possible:

try:
   statement1
   statement2
   (...)
   statementn
except:
   raise AssertionError("Errormsg")

Cheers,
Terry


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