Best practice for using assert?
Is there a performance or code maintenance issue with using assert as part of the standard code instead of using it just for debugging purposes?
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What is the use of “assert” in Python?
What does assert mean? How is it used?
Disable assertions in Python
How do I disable assertions in Python?
How to check if an object is a list or tuple (but not string)?
This is what I normally do in order to ascertain that the input is a list/tuple – but not a str. Because many times I stumbled upon bugs where a function passes a str object by mistake, and the target function does for x in lst assuming that lst is actually a list or tuple.
How do I check (at runtime) if one class is a subclass of another?
Let’s say that I have a class Suit and four subclasses of suit: Heart, Spade, Diamond, Club.