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Python’s new t-strings

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620 points tambourine_man | 4 comments | 21 Apr 25 04:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.982s | 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. nhumrich ◴[21 Apr 25 12:35 UTC] No.43751267[source]▶
We're at a point where the current generation of programmers weren't even _alive_ when that happened.
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2. pansa2 ◴[21 Apr 25 12:46 UTC] No.43751394[source]▶
Yes, Python 3.0 was released 17 years ago. But the transition from Python 2.x was only completed with 2.7’s end-of-life, 5 years ago.
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3. int_19h ◴[21 Apr 25 18:32 UTC] No.43754988[source]▶
"It's still supported" is a strange metric for this. I mean, ActiveState still provides Python 2.7 builds with (paid) support.
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4. eichin ◴[21 Apr 25 19:24 UTC] No.43755494{3}[source]▶
And Ubuntu ESM got used as an excuse/"life support" for python 2 via 16.04 until horrifyingly recently. (With a layer of "you can still get ESM for 14.04, we're not that far behind" :-)