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Python’s new t-strings

(davepeck.org)
620 points tambourine_man | 1 comments | 21 Apr 25 04:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | 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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varunneal ◴[21 Apr 25 17:37 UTC] No.43754430[source]▶
Would be interested in inclusion of PEP 292 [1] in your discussion here, which introduced `string.Template`. Is this Template going to be deprecated?

[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0292/

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1. davepeck ◴[21 Apr 25 17:41 UTC] No.43754467[source]▶
PEP 292's `string.Template` will remain; there are no plans to deprecate it.

PEP 750's `string.templatelib.Template` is a separate and unrelated type. Amongst many differences, unlike PEP 292, `Template` has a literal form too.

I'm hopeful that the confusion will be minimal; in practice, PEP 292 (aka $-strings) is used only in specialized cases, like flufl.i18n, a really deep I18N framework.