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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: 0.423s | source
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davepeck ◴[21 Apr 25 17:17 UTC] No.43754220[source]▶
Hi! I wrote this. :-)

I'm a little late to the conversation (and a bit surprised to see this trending on HN) but am happy to answer any questions; I'll try to pop in throughout the day.

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1. maxloh ◴[21 Apr 25 17:27 UTC] No.43754336[source]▶
Hi. I come from a JavaScript background.

I am wondering what is the reason behind not using a similar syntax to JavaScript? Seems simpler to me.

  # Compare this:
  template = t"<p>{evil}</p>"
  safe = html(template)

  # To this:
  safe = html"<p>{evil}</p>"
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2. davepeck ◴[21 Apr 25 17:43 UTC] No.43754479[source]▶
The PEP originally started with a similar-to-javascript syntax but over time we decided it wasn't the right way to expose these ideas in Python. There's more detail about why this approach was rejected in the PEP: https://peps.python.org/pep-0750/#arbitrary-string-literal-p...