Assertion in list comprehension

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_666 at gmx.net
Wed Aug 1 13:15:17 EDT 2007


On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:55:53 +0000, Stargaming wrote:

>> Thirdly: This sort of testing is precisely what unit tests and/or
>> doctests are for.
> 
> Huh? What beginner is doing there seems more like input validation than 
> testing. Unit or doctests are meant for testing (and in case of doctests, 
> showing) whether a function works as expected.

If it is input validation I wouldn't expect it protected by a ``if
__debug__:``.  That looks more like debugging/testing.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch



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