prompt-toolkit / prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit

assertion in Completion constructor doesn't propagate to prompt()

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Description

It seems that the assertion at https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit/blob/7db93560cb1f10c96f4a22816774da63e67e467e/prompt_toolkit/completion/base.py#L37 is handled at https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit/blob/7db93560cb1f10c96f4a22816774da63e67e467e/prompt_toolkit/eventloop/coroutine.py#L103 but that assertion doesn't propagate back to prompt() and seems to be silently discarded (at least in mycli and pgcli) ...

This can be reproduced by adding assert False at the first line of the Completion constructor and running prompt(), this seems to do nothing and I'd expect prompt() to raise an exception.

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Start by reading prompt_toolkit/completion/base.py around the Completion constructor and prompt_toolkit/eventloop/coroutine.py around line 103. Reproduce the issue by adding assert False to the constructor and running prompt(), then trace why the assertion is discarded. Done means prompt() propagates the constructor exception instead of silently continuing.

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Tech stack
python
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cli
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Bug
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