Why is cc's python interpreter ignoring assert statement? any other alternative to purposely throw SIGABRT error for debugging purposes?

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I had a working code in python and i placed assert(False) in between an arbitrary pair of lines. Still outputs correct answer in codechef interpreter although in my own interpreter it throws AssertionError.

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Hi, sorry for the very delayed reply. As you can see from Are any compiler flags set on the online judge? - #2 by admin, the OO flag is used on Codechef, and that ignores asserts, as explained here: optimization - What are the implications of running python with the optimize flag? - Stack Overflow

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Here is what I have used while testing for my contest on CodeChef:

def pyassert(v):
    if v==False:
        a=2/0

And then replaced all ‘assert’ with ‘pyassert’. This gives run time error in all failing conditions.

Alternatively, You can also use,

from numpy.testing import assert_

and then replace all ‘assert’ with ‘assert_’.

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