New submission from Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com>: [Creating a new issue from #41045]
I was just just trying to link to someone the documentation for f-strings, but: 1) Searching "fstring" only returns two results about xdrlib[0]; 2) Searching "f-string" returns many unrelated results[1]; 3) The first (and closer) result (string -- Common string operations[2]) yields nothing while using ctrl+f with fstring, f-string, f', f"; 4) at the top of that page there are two links in a "see also": * Text Sequence Type — str[3]: it mentions raw strings at the beginning, but also yields no results for fstring, f-string, f', f"; * String Methods[4]: that is another section of the previous page (so ctrl+f doesn't find anything), but has a link to "Format String Syntax"[5]; 5) The "Format String Syntax" page[5] has another link in the middle of a paragraph that points to "formatted string literals", that eventually brings us to the right page[6]; 6) the "right page"[6] has a wall of text with a block of code containing the grammar, luckily followed by a few examples. I think we should: 1) add index entries for "f-string" and "fstring" in the relevant sections of the docs, so that they appear in the search result; 2) in the Text Sequence Type — str[3] section, have a bullet list for f-strings, raw-strings, and possibly u-strings; 3) possibly use the term "f-string" in addition (or instead) of "formatted string literal", to make the pages more ctrl+f-friendly throughout the docs; 4) possibly have another more newbie-friendly section on f-string (compared to the lexical analysis page) in the tutorial, in the stdtypes page[7] (e.g. before the printf-style String Formatting" section[8]), or in the string page[2] (e.g. after the "Format String Syntax" section[10]); 5) possibly reorganize and consolidate the different sections about strings, string methods, str.format(), the format mini-language, f-strings, raw/unicode-strings, %-style formatting in a single page or two (a page for the docs and one for the grammar), since it seems to me that over the years these sections got a bit scattered around as they were being added. [0]: https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=fstring [1]: https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=f-string [2]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html [3]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#textseq [4]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods [5]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#formatstrings [6]: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#f-strings [7]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html [8]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style-string-formatting ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 374398 nosy: docs@python, eric.smith, ezio.melotti priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Improve and consolidate f-strings docs type: enhancement versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41411> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
