From 4a3e9c05817a83da4aa5bb4830f6bb5c1531991b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Arras <parras@mpa-garching.mpg.de>
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 16:47:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add note on asserts

---
 README.md | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 52395c22a..dd1933654 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -134,6 +134,15 @@ The NIFTy package is licensed under the terms of the
 *without any warranty*.
 
 
+Contributing
+------------
+
+Please note our convention not to use pure python `assert` statements in
+production code. They are not guaranteed to by executed by python and can be
+turned off by the user (`python -O` in cPython). As an alternative use
+`ift.myassert`.
+
+
 Contributors
 ------------
 
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