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		IshKebab 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm switching to Python and actually liking it Assertions are disabled via `python -O` so they probably shouldn't be used like this.

nijave 4 months 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

IshKebab 4 months 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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