[Python-Dev] PEP 498: Literal String Interpolation is ready for pronouncement

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:

> I've made a number of small changes to PEP 498. I don't think any of the
> changes I've made in the last week are substantive. Mostly I've
> clarified how it works and removing some limitations. The only
> meaningful change is that expressions are now surrounded by parens
> before they're evaluated. This allows for newlines inside of the
> expressions to be ignored.
>
> I think it's now ready for Guido to pronounce on it.
>

And I'm ready to accept it. I'll wait until Tuesday night (Monday's a
holiday in the US) in case anything unforeseen comes up, but this is really
the Last Call for this PEP.


> The code in issue 24965 is slightly out of date, in that it has some
> limitations that are no longer mentioned in the PEP and doesn't enclose
> the expression in parens before evaluation. If the PEP is accepted, I'll
> fix that and update the issue.


No worries. (The parens thing was something I suggested to Eric this
afternoon. :-)

I'll say a few words about PEPs 501 and 502, but I'll start separate
threads.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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