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Python’s new t-strings

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620 points tambourine_man | 1 comments | 21 Apr 25 04:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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metrognome ◴[21 Apr 25 17:42 UTC] No.43754478[source]▶
Zen of Python in 2025:

  There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Python String Formatting in 2025:

- t-strings

- f-strings

- %-operator

- +-operator

- str.format()

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1. hughw ◴[21 Apr 25 21:35 UTC] No.43756756[source]▶
I could scarcely believe this new t-string wasn't a joke. As an occasional, grudging Python programmer, I rue the accretion of string formatters over the years. My code bears the history of successive, imperfectly understood (by me)formatters.

"Situation: There are 14 competing standards...." https://xkcd.com/927/