On 8/18/2016 8:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 02:17:29AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> Format codes are just text,
>
> I really think that is wrong. They're more like executable code.
>
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/#expression-evaluation
I agree with you here. I just note that the strings passed to exec,
eval, and compile are also executable code strings (and nothing but!).
But I don't remember a suggestion that *they* should by colored as
anything other than a string.
But these are objects of type str, not string literals. If they were, I guess someone would have suggested such coloring.
~Elazar