assert(obj) is an atrocity

[bearophile]

Alex R. Petersen:

> I just thought it was worth mentioning how calling the invariant in 
> assert can lead to very unexpected results.

Python Zen says "Explicit is better than implicit.". Calling the invariant with an explicit syntax is better than calling it implicitly with an assert syntax that looks like it does something different.

Bye,
bearophile