From 09f5dfff2353a02e21b4853c82040858a48ab975 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: A_D <aunderscored@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 18:10:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Replaced assert False with a clearer raise

previously this would assert False, which always raises an
AssertionError, now we raise a saner ValueError
---
 companion.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/companion.py b/companion.py
index 84f25209..1cd202bb 100644
--- a/companion.py
+++ b/companion.py
@@ -129,8 +129,7 @@ def listify(thing):
         return retval
 
     else:
-        assert False, thing  # we expect an array or a sparse array
-        return list(thing)  # hope for the best
+        raise ValueError("expected an array or sparse array")
 
 
 class ServerError(Exception):