[Python-Dev] PEP 498 f-string: please remove the special case for spaces

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Aug 11 08:07:26 CEST 2015


Cameron Simpson wrote:
> To illustrate, there's a consumer rights TV snow here with a segment 
> called "F.U. Tube", where members of the public describe ripoffs and 
> other product failures in video form. While a phonetic play on the name 
> "YouTube", the abbreviation also colloquially means just what you think 
> it might. I can just imagine reciting one of these new strings out loud...

We could require it to be spelled "uf" unless "from __future__
import billy_connolly_as_FLUFL" is in effect.

-- 
Greg


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