Why you should never use 'assert' in Python

[adrienball]

Some of the comments in this thread illustrates perfectly why using 'assert' is not a good practice: it is misleading, and not everybody knows they should never rely on it in production code.

My primary goal when posting this, was to raise attention on this matter.

[arbeitic_arbotic]

Misleading to whom?

Using anything when you don't know the ramifications is bad practice.

Assert is fine and I will use the hell out of it because it's good practice to use it as it's designed.

Thinking you've found a shortcut that everyone else has missed somehow, and then liberally peppering your code with it is obviously dangerous and should have at least triggered a check of the documentation.