On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 12:54 AM <minecraft2048@gmail.com> wrote:
The idea is to add a new string prefix 's' for SQL string. This string doesn't do anything in Python, unlike b"" or f"" strings, but interactive Python shells like IPython or Jupyter can parse the following characters as SQL syntax instead of Python syntax and give SQL syntax highlighting and autocompletion, and if they are configured correctly, they can do column name autocompletion. Unfortunately when I try to type s"select * from table" it gave me syntax error instead, so I think this need to be implemented in Python language itself instead of module
All other forms of string prefix have syntactic significance, but you're asking for something that has semantic significance instead. I suggest that this would be better served by a completely different feature: type recognition. An SQL query can be considered to be a specific data type (even though it's effectively a string), and type inference can recognize that a string that'll eventually be passed to a "run query" function must be a query. In the cases where inference isn't sufficient, add a type hint. Either way, the editor can use that info to syntax-highlight the string appropriately. ChrisA