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by IshKebab 332 days ago
Assertions are disabled via `python -O` so they probably shouldn't be used like this.
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nijave 332 days ago
On the other hand, presumably the program will just crash anyway with some terse permission/request error later on if these values aren't set
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IshKebab 332 days ago
Doesn't matter. Assertions should be used for things that are always true (barring bugs in the program). That isn't the case here.
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