Tests

[ENH] Replace `asserts` with proper `if else` Exception handling #2386

Job	Run time
docker	2s
(ubuntu-latest, Py3.8, sk0.23.1, sk-only:false)	4s
(windows-latest, Py, sk0.24.*, sk-only:false)	2s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.10,sk1.6.*,sk-only:true)	1m 3s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.11,sk1.4.*,sk-only:true)	1m 4s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.11,sk1.5.*,sk-only:true)	53s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.10,sk1.7.*,sk-only:true)	1m 1s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.10,sk1.3.*,sk-only:true)	58s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.11,sk1.3.*,sk-only:true)	51s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.10,sk1.4.*,sk-only:true)	1m 1s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.10,sk1.5.*,sk-only:true)	58s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.12,sk1.5.*,sk-only:true)	1m 11s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.11,sk1.6.*,sk-only:true)	53s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.13,sk1.7.*,sk-only:true)	1m 5s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.12,sk1.3.*,sk-only:true)	1m 4s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.14,sk1.5.*,sk-only:true)	4m 21s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.12,sk1.7.*,sk-only:true)	1m 2s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.13,sk1.5.*,sk-only:true)	1m 2s
(windows-latest,Py3.12,sk1.5.*,sk-only:false)	3m 37s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.12,sk1.6.*,sk-only:true)	1m 2s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.12,sk1.5.*,sk-only:false)	6m 5s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.14,sk1.6.*,sk-only:true)	4m 10s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.14,sk1.7.*,sk-only:true)	1m 6s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.12,sk1.5.,pd:2.,sk-only:false)	2m 58s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.14,sk1.7.*,sk-only:false)	2m 43s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.13,sk1.6.*,sk-only:true)	1m 0s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.12,sk1.4.*,sk-only:true)	53s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.11,sk1.7.*,sk-only:true)	1m 2s
	43m 11s

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