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Python’s new t-strings

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620 points tambourine_man | 2 comments | 21 Apr 25 04:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.55s | source
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damnitbuilds ◴[21 Apr 25 08:00 UTC] No.43749409[source]▶
I enjoy f-strings, I guess some people need these.

And I love Python but, having been through 2->3 ( occasionally still going through it! ) whenever I see a new language feature my first thought is "Thank goodness it doesn't break everything that went before it".

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stavros ◴[21 Apr 25 08:20 UTC] No.43749513[source]▶
Yeah but it's been 17 years, maybe it's time to put the PTSD behind us. We're almost at a point where the current generation of programmers wasn't even programming when that happened.
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1. nightfly ◴[21 Apr 25 09:13 UTC] No.43749836[source]▶
Python2 code didn't disappear when Python3 came out. At my work we're _still_ occasionally having to help people migrate code that was written for python2
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2. damnitbuilds ◴[21 Apr 25 12:12 UTC] No.43751034[source]▶
Also my experience, alas.

We are not completely Post Traumatic Python2 Stress yet, I am afraid.

Bad decisions can have looong-term repercussions.