[Python-ideas] Let’s make escaping in f-literals impossible

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/19/2016 2:07 AM, אלעזר wrote:
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> בתאריך יום ו׳, 19 באוג' 2016, 08:29, מאת Terry Reedy
> ‏<tjreedy at udel.edu
> <mailto:tjreedy at udel.edu>>:
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>     On 8/18/2016 8:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>     > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 02:17:29AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
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>     >> Format codes are just text,
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>     > I really think that is wrong. They're more like executable code.
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>     > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/#expression-evaluation
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>     I agree with you here.  I just note that the strings passed to exec,
>     eval, and compile are also executable code strings (and nothing but!).
>     But I don't remember a suggestion that *they* should by colored as
>     anything other than a string.
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> But these are objects of type str, not string literals. If they were, I
> guess someone would have suggested such coloring.

I was referring to strings created by string literals in the code 
sitting in an editor.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy