[Python-ideas] Briefer string format

[Oleg Broytman]

Hi!

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 07:50:52PM -0400, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 7/19/2015 7:12 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> >Have long wished python could format strings easily like bash or perl
> >do, ...
> >and then it hit me:
> >
> >     csstext += f'{nl}{selector}{space}{{{nl}'
> 
> Are the unbalanced braces here and in the followup intentional?

   I'm sure they are. The code is supposed to generate something
equivalent to

csstext += '''
p.italic {
'''

   to be extended later with something like

csstext += '''
   font-style: italic;
}
'''

> -- 
> Terry Jan Reedy

Oleg.
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