[Python-ideas] Briefer string format

[Eric V. Smith]

On 7/23/2015 1:57 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Ron Adam <ron3200 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The part that bothers me is it seems like the "f" should be a unary operator
>> rather than a string prefix.
>>
>> As a prefix:
>>
>>       s = f'{spam}{{eggs}}'        # spam
>>       s2 = s.format(eggs=eggs)     # eggs
>>
>>
>> As an unary operator:
>>
>>       s  = ? '{spam}{{eggs}}'    # spam
>>       s2 = ? s                   # eggs
>>
>> (? == some to be determined symbol)
>>
>> They are just normal strings in the second case.
> 
> Except that they can't be normal strings, because the compiler has to
> parse them. They're expressions. You can't take input from a user and
> f-string it (short of using exec/eval, of course); it has to be there
> in the source code.

Right. This is the "unevaluated f-string" of which I spoke in
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2015-July/034728.html

It would be a huge code injection opportunity, and I agree it's best we
don't implement it.

Eric.