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Python’s new t-strings

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620 points tambourine_man | 1 comments | 21 Apr 25 04:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.245s | source
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runekaagaard ◴[21 Apr 25 08:32 UTC] No.43749575[source]▶
It feels a bit like "cheating" that new x-string features are built-in only. It would be cool to be able to do:

    from foo import bar
    bar"zoop"
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1. masklinn ◴[21 Apr 25 08:35 UTC] No.43749594[source]▶
A t-string is a literal for a Template object which is a data holder, it doesn't actually do anything, so you would simply call

    bar(t"zoop")