Merged revisions 72579 via svnmerge from

Merged revisions 72579 via svnmerge from
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  r72579 | tarek.ziade | 2009-05-12 09:06:42 +0200 (Tue, 12 May 2009) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 72577 via svnmerge from
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    r72577 | tarek.ziade | 2009-05-12 09:01:29 +0200 (Tue, 12 May 2009) | 1 line

    removing the assert statement so the code works when Python is run with -O
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