print success messages for asserts in python

Question

I am using assert in python. Every time an assert fails I get the failure message which I would have put there to be printed. I was wondering if there is a way to print a cu

Answer 1

Write a simple helper function:

def myfunc(msg='assert OK'):
    print msg
    return True

Include that in the condition on the right-side, after an and:

assert self.clnt.stop_io()==1 and myfunc("IO stop succeeded"), "IO stop failed"