Flubbed it in the second interation through the string: range error... HOW?

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed May 29 03:14:51 EDT 2024


On Wed, 29 May 2024 at 16:03, Cameron Simpson via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
> By which Thomas means stuff like this:
>
>      print(f'if block {name[index]} and index {index}')
>
> Notice the leading "f'". Personally I wouldn't even go that far, just:
>
>      print('if block', name[index], 'and index', index)
>
> But there are plenty of places where f-strings are very useful.

I wouldn't replace str.format() everywhere, nor would I replace
percent encoding everywhere - but in this case, I think Thomas is
correct. Not because it's 2024 (f-strings were brought in back in
2015, so they're hardly chronologically special), but because most of
this looks like debugging output that can take advantage of this
feature:

print(f"if block {name[index]=} {index=}")

ChrisA


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