[Python-ideas] String interpolation for all literal strings

[Eric V. Smith]

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On 08/06/2015 04:27 AM, Eric V. Smith wrote:
>> Agreed that raw strings probably shouldn't be scanned.  Since it 
>> may happen that some surprising behavior occurs (long after it's 
>> past __future__), there should be some way to prevent scanning.
>> To me that either means r'' strings don't get scanned or f'' is 
>> required.
> 
> I've come around to raw strings not being scanned.

One advantage of the f-string approach is that you could interpolate
raw strings if you wanted to:

>>> x=42

>>> f"\b {x}"
'\x08 42'

>>> rf"\b {x}"
'\\b 42'

Eric.
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