Why assert is not a function?

[Ethan Furman]

On 3/11/21 1:45 PM, dn via Python-list wrote:

> Is assert so much faster/cheaper than try...except...raise?

Infinitely faster when they are not there.  ;-)

Basically, you are looking at two different philosophies:

- Always double check, get good error message when something fails

vs

- check during testing and QA, turn off double-checks for production for best performance possible.

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~Ethan~