[Python-ideas] Briefer string format

[Oscar Benjamin]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 at 14:14 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wonder though, if we went with the f-strings idea, could we make
> them support a *subset* of the "str.format" call syntax, rather than a
> superset? What if they supported name and attribute lookup syntax, but not
> positional or subscript lookup?
>

Please don't do either. Python already has a surplus of string formatting
mini-languages. Making a new one that is similar but not the same as one of
the others is a recipe for confusion as well as an additional learning
burden for new users of the language.

--
Oscar
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