replace assert() with message logging

core/utils.py

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 import string
 import os
 import datetime
-import logging
 import re
 import resource
 import random
+import logging
 from subprocess import call
 
 from urllib.parse import urljoin
@@ -41,12 +41,12 @@ TROG = {
 
 # This is module-level executable. This is a Bad Thing. Especially when it touches the file system.
 try:
-      logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG,
-                           filename=settings.LOGFILE,
-                           filemode='w')
+    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG,
+        filename=settings.LOGFILE,
+        filemode='w')
 except:
-# Opening of file for writing is going to fail currently, so decide it doesn't matter for now    
-      pass
+    # Opening of file for writing is going to fail currently, so decide it doesn't matter for now    
+    pass
 
 def get_process_memory():
     usage=resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF)