On 04/10/2013 02:18 AM, Jordan wrote:
Thank you all for the feedback and suggestions. I have never used an
assertion, before so I will read up on the concept.
One comment about assertion. Even though an optimized run will ignore
the assertion itself, it can save a (small) amount of time avo
On 10/04/13 07:18, Jordan wrote:
Alan you are right, the code should be better tested, but test driven
development seems like it would take me forever to complete even small
tasks, there is so much to be tested. I have limited time to program
with my wife and kids, but do you think test driven
Thank you all for the feedback and suggestions. I have never used an
assertion, before so I will read up on the concept. But this last email
about the optimizations makes me want to go with an AssertionError
exception, since assert is skipped if the compiler is told to optimize.
Alan you are r
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Danny Yoo wrote:
>
> Going back to the original question: perhaps an assertion here would
> be sufficient. Something like:
>
> assert False, "Impossible situation"
Like "if __debug__" statements, assert statements are skipped by the
compiler if optimization is
>> if condition is 1:
>> do something with 1
>> elif condition is 2:
>> do something with 2
>> else: # Impossible unless the code above is flawed.
>> Raise Exception
>
>
>
> The above isn't a great example, because the sample code *is* flawed.
> The short reason why it is flawed is t
On 10/04/13 05:22, Jordan wrote:
I want to know what exception should be raised if there is a bug in my code
that allows an else statement to be triggered, because the else condition in my
code should be impossible, unless there is an error in my code. What exception
should I raise so that if
On 09/04/13 20:22, Jordan wrote:
I want to know what exception should be raised if there is a bug in my
code that allows an else statement to be triggered, because the else
condition in my code should be impossible,
class BuggyCodeError(StandardError): pass
Maybe?
Seriously, exceptions are no
On 9 April 2013 20:22, Jordan wrote:
> I want to know what exception should be raised if there is a bug in my code
> that allows an else statement to be triggered, because the else condition in
> my code should be impossible, unless there is an error in my code. What
> exception should I raise so
On 09/04/2013 20:22, Jordan wrote:
I want to know what exception should be raised if there is a bug in my
code that allows an else statement to be triggered, because the else
condition in my code should be impossible, unless there is an error in
my code. What exception should I raise so that if
