Added descriptive error text to assert statements

[cpilko]

Changes proposed in this pull request

• Added descriptive error text to two assert statements in interfaces/cython/cantera/composite.py

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[bryanwweber]

Hi! Thanks for making this change. I think this is definitely an improvement.

Since you're editing these lines anyways, ideally we would actually change these into full if statements, raising an appropriate ValueError. The reason is that interpreter options can be set for Python that disable assert statements at runtime, so these guards would no longer be effective.

Please also address the changes suggested by the linter: https://github.com/Cantera/cantera/actions/runs/11936944028/job/33273168168?pr=1816, in particular making sure not to introduce any extra spaces at the ends of lines. You can continue to push changes to this branch to update the pull request.

Thank you!

[bryanwweber]

Thanks for the quick updates! Just one more tiny change to the formatting ☺️

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Attention: Patch coverage is 20.00000% with 8 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 73.25%. Comparing base (ad41b31) to head (27312a5).
Report is 4 commits behind head on main.

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interfaces/cython/cantera/composite.py	20.00%	4 Missing and 4 partials ⚠️

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[bryanwweber]

Thank you! The test failures on macOS don't seem related to the changes here, but let's see what happens this time. I will merge this as soon as the tests look good!