[Python-ideas] Simplifying .format() based string interpolation

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Robert Hölzl <robert.hoelzl at posteo.de> wrote:
> How about introducing new string tokens beginning with 'f',
> which tells the parser to take over that job.
> In this case one simply had to write:
>
> f"{name} is {value}  ({value:X} in hex)"
>
> and the parser would replace this by
>
> "{name} is {value}  ({value:X} in hex)".format(
>     **collections.ChainMap(locals(), globals()) )

PHP programmers would love it. Subsequent maintainers would hate it.

It's way too magical for my liking.

ChrisA