Is this line of code in ARAX_expander.py necessary?

[saramsey]

@edeutsch suspects that this line of code in ARAX_expander.py (in the issue-2590 branch) is unnecessary:

RTX/code/ARAX/ARAXQuery/ARAX_expander.py

Line 738 in b52a01f

response = infer_response # these are already always the same object?

He suspects that response already has the infer_response value and thus this is a no-op. Proposes a code review (and some testing, perhaps an assertion) to verify this.

[saramsey]

Since I view this issue as orthogonal to the high priority issue 2590, I opted to raise it as a separate issue here.