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serbuvlad ◴[] No.43750075[source]
All things considered, this is pretty cool. Basically, this replaces

    db.execute("QUERY WHERE name = ?", (name,))
with

    db.execute(t"QUERY WHERE name = {name}")
Does the benefit from this syntactic sugar outweigh the added complexity of a new language feature? I think it does in this case for two reasons:

1. Allowing library developers to do whatever they want with {} expansions is a good thing, and will probably spawn some good uses.

2. Generalizing template syntax across a language, so that all libraries solve this problem in the same way, is probably a good thing.

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pinoy420 ◴[] No.43750226[source]
Now instead of being explicit all it takes is someone unfamiliar with t strings (which will be almost everyone - still few know about f strings and their formatting capabilities) to use an f instead and you are in for a bad time.
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