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  r74164 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-22 10:57:28 +0200 (Wed, 22 Jul 2009) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 74163 via svnmerge from
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    r74163 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-22 10:55:19 +0200 (Wed, 22 Jul 2009) | 1 line

    Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior is similar when used with -O
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Lib/distutils/extension.py

@@ -103,10 +103,11 @@ class Extension:
                   optional=None,
                   **kw                      # To catch unknown keywords
                  ):
-        assert isinstance(name, str), "'name' must be a string"
-        assert (isinstance(sources, list) and
-                all(isinstance(v, str) for v in sources)), \
-                "'sources' must be a list of strings"
+        if not isinstance(name, str):
+            raise AssertionError("'name' must be a string")
+        if not (isinstance(sources, list) and
+                all(isinstance(v, str) for v in sources)):
+            raise AssertionError("'sources' must be a list of strings")
 
         self.name = name
         self.sources = sources

Misc/NEWS

@@ -892,6 +892,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the 
+  behavior is similar when used with -O.
+
 - Issue #6459: distutils.command.build_ext.get_export_symbols now uses the 
   "PyInit" prefix, rather than "init".