[Python-ideas] String interpolation for all literal strings

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> We could potentially make f-strings translation friendly by
> introducing a bit of indirection into the f-string design: an
> __interpolate__ builtin, along the lines of __import__.
>

This seems interesting, but doesn't it require sys._getframe() or similar
again? Translations may need to reorder variables. (Or even change the
expressions? E.g. to access odd plurals?)

The sys._getframe() requirement (if true) would kill this idea thoroughly
for me.

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