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Re:I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It by IshKebab on Thursday July 17, 2025 @02:05AM (#44590190)
Assertions are disabled via `python -O` so they probably shouldn't be used like this.
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Re:I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It by nijave on Thursday July 17, 2025 @11:02AM (#44594172)
On the other hand, presumably the program will just crash anyway with some terse permission/request error later on if these values aren't set
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Re:I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It by IshKebab on Thursday July 17, 2025 @12:19PM (#44594992)
Doesn't matter. Assertions should be used for things that are always true (barring bugs in the program). That isn't the case here.
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