While working on back-door publishing of .xml forms to formhub, I was blown away by an AssertionError. These are normally caused by program logic errors. (Which may have been the case when this module is used for its intended purpose.) I replaced the two "assert" calls with the more usual Python "easier to get forgiveness than permission" pattern, and a TypeError with some diagnostic text.
It might have been better to raise ValueError, but I noticed that TypeError was used elsewhere in the module.
prabhasp
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10 years ago
While working on back-door publishing of .xml forms to formhub, I was blown away by an AssertionError. These are normally caused by program logic errors. (Which may have been the case when this module is used for its intended purpose.) I replaced the two "assert" calls with the more usual Python "easier to get forgiveness than permission" pattern, and a TypeError with some diagnostic text.
It might have been better to raise ValueError, but I noticed that TypeError was used elsewhere in the module.