python: what is assert? (beginner) anthony explains #240

Not only did I learn about assert statements but also was exposed to pytest, breakpoint() and pass. Thank you for the great video!

Thank you for the video. I understood well

I got an error when trying to do that {x=}

Hi, I work in deep learning and I am developing a "framework" for internal use. I want to force the shape of my tensors, I'm doing it with asserts but all the strings dancing around make the code less readable, any suggestions?

Why do you state that using "assert" is not a security issue?

Also can you please explain what should* be the ideal way to type hint *args and **kwargs in context of being aware of *args and **kwargs arguments. In some cases I'm aware I'll passing all strings as arguments hence I use *args: str (is this correct?) or in some cases where I'm uncertain of the keyword args I tend to use **kwargs: Dict[str, Any] which feels wrong on so many levels but type checkers are fine by it so I usually call it a day and move on. But really wanted to know if there is a `CORRECT` way of annotating *args and **kwargs

Does it makes sense to use asserts for building contracts?
The gist is I'm working on a package and in that I want to have a module that enforces module/function/class level annotations. The annotations actually don't help much in the process of execution for the library user but it helps the library itself to find its way around the passed arguments. To solve this I've been watching your videos on `typing` module particularly the overload method video and it has certainly helped. But does it really makes sense to implement that many things (asserts based contracts which enforces types and overload which returns true values) in a library where chances are many user are aware of -O notation and can potentially use it thus disabling the whole feature? I hope I was able to explain my dilemma. This has been bugging me since I started off on the project.

Thanks for the video! Personally I would like to watch videos about best practices for how to structure python projects and repositories for different kinds of projects - web app, bot, command line utils etc.

-O disables asserts, -OO disables asserts + docstrings

Is there going to be a video on PEP 634.??

It would be nice to see a video(s) about working with the python AST :)