This idea by jdveiga seems like a good one. It doesn't require any change in Python, although conceivably an informational PEP could make some specific convention a recommendation. The thing is, SQL isn't THAT special. I use SQL a lot myself, so would benefit from such support. But there are LOTS of mini-languages that I might work with as strings in Python. Pandas queries; Numexpr transformations; XPath queries; HTML; Regex; MongoDB queries; JSON query (which I think is mostly the same as MongoDB); LDAP query; GraphQL; and lots of others. I certainly don't want to make new string types for every one of these. And I don't even want special syntax to allow an arbitrary string style. In concept, something like an f-string declaration might be possible: query = f"{SELECT * FROM table|@sql}" I'm not sure if that off-the-cuff "suggestion" would be possible in Python's parser, but just to show the vague idea. But a comment convention feels much lighter here. On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:16 AM <jdveiga@gmail.com> wrote:
May I suggest mark string with comments instead of populating the interpreter with lost of "string" templates?
Something like "SELECT * FROM table" # string: sql
Or "<p><strong>spam</strong> ham eggs</p> # template: html
IDEs can read this comment and highlight (and do some other static checks) on the commented strings.
It can be easily combined with raw strings and f-strings such as:
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