From 8e650e57c199fa428a48520b6f63063bea670b6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Ward <bward@flatironinstitute.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:18:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Remove assert

---
 stanio/__init__.py | 2 +-
 stanio/csv.py      | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/stanio/__init__.py b/stanio/__init__.py
index bcda030..cc2bef2 100644
--- a/stanio/__init__.py
+++ b/stanio/__init__.py
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@
     "stan_variables",
 ]
 
-__version__ = "0.3.0"
+__version__ = "0.3.1"
diff --git a/stanio/csv.py b/stanio/csv.py
index 5f6fd78..5b1ab43 100644
--- a/stanio/csv.py
+++ b/stanio/csv.py
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ def read_csv(filenames: Union[str, List[str]]) -> Tuple[str, npt.NDArray[np.floa
                 pass
             if header == "":
                 header = file_header
-            else:
-                assert header == file_header, "Headers do not match"
+            elif header != file_header:
+                raise ValueError("Headers do not match")
             data[i] = np.loadtxt(fd, delimiter=",", comments="#")
 
     return header.strip(), np.stack(data, axis=0)