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Expand Up @@ -54,14 +54,13 @@ operators. (See :ref:`tbreportdemo`). This allows you to use the
idiomatic python constructs without boilerplate code while not losing
introspection information.

However, if you specify a message with the assertion like this:
If a message is specified with the assertion like this:

.. code-block:: python

assert a % 2 == 0, "value was odd, should be even"

then no assertion introspection takes places at all and the message
will be simply shown in the traceback.
it is printed alongside the assertion introspection in the traceback.

See :ref:`assert-details` for more information on assertion introspection.

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