[wingide-users] method completion

[Walker Hale]

The "if 0" part of the idiom restores duck typing. The assertion is not
actually run at runtime, since 0 is always construed as false. It just
serves to tell the Wing about the type of the object. (It may also insert a
tiny amount of unused byte code into your compiled files.)

This idiom is also in the Wing docs. It is a Good Thing (tm). If you need
it, use it.

if 0:
    assert isinstance( myObject, theType )

Walker

-----Original Message-----
From: wingide-users-bounces at wingware.com
[mailto:wingide-users-bounces at wingware.com] On Behalf Of ybastide
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 9:14 AM
To: Martijn Pieters
Cc: wingide-users at wingware.com
Subject: Re: [wingide-users] method completion

Martijn Pieters wrote:
> ybastide wrote:
>> Yep, there's a standard idiom::
>>
>> if 0:
>>      assert isinstance(self.logger, Logger)
> 
> No need to hide the statement in a if 0; assertions are, if your code 
> is correct, harmless.

I disagree: asserting isinstance's prevents duck typing.

> You can also instruct Python to not even compile assertions (the only 
> difference between 'optimized' and nonoptimized python bytecode).

Yep, and this is generally a Bad Thing (as you said, assertions should be
correct)

> 
> Martijn Pieters

yves

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