From 7cf8316099050f48911f5c2f97dae9d8fb6ac4b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nish_ <120EE0980@nitrkl.ac.in>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 21:25:11 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] quickfix to disallow running borg with assertions switched
 off

Signed-off-by: Nish_ <120EE0980@nitrkl.ac.in>
---
 src/borg/archiver.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/borg/archiver.py b/src/borg/archiver.py
index cb159d553..4992661e1 100644
--- a/src/borg/archiver.py
+++ b/src/borg/archiver.py
@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@
 import sys
 import traceback
 
+# quickfix to disallow running borg with assertions switched off
+try:
+    assert False
+except AssertionError:
+    pass  # OK
+else:
+    print("Borg requires working assertions. Please run Python without -O and/or unset PYTHONOPTIMIZE.", file=sys.stderr)
+    sys.exit(2)  # == EXIT_ERROR
+
 try:
     import argparse
     import collections