[Python-projects] Assertions, type checking, and testing

[Nicolas Chauvat]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 02:20:32PM +0200, Aurélien Campéas wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 02:14:50PM +0200, Nicolas Chauvat wrote:
> > > def assert_expr(expr):
> > >     if ASSERT_EXPR:
> > >        assert expr()
> > 
> > Did you mean `assert callable(expr)` ?
> 
> I meant : 
> 
> def assert_expr(expr, *args, **kwargs):
>    if ASSERT_EXPR: assert expr(args, kwargs)
> 
> 
> whose usage is even more clunky :
> 
> assert_expr(lambda foo, bar: something_about(foo, bar), foo, bar)
> 
> but now has some meaning. This is not too dry ...

did you mean `assert expr(*args, **kwargs)` ? :)

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Nicolas Chauvat

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