On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Franklin? Lee <leewangzhong+pyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Speaking of which, how is this parsed? > f"{'\n'}" > If escape-handling is done first, the expression is a string literal holding > an actual newline character (normally illegal), rather than an escape > sequence which resolves to a newline character.
It's illegal. > If that one somehow works, how about this? > f"{r'\n'}" Also illegal. > I guess you'd have to write one of these: > f"{'\\n'}" > f"{'''\n''')" > rf"{'\n'}" Modulo the typo in the second one, these all result in the same code: >>> dis.dis(lambda: f"{'\\n'}") 1 0 LOAD_CONST 1 ('\n') 2 FORMAT_VALUE 0 4 RETURN_VALUE >>> f"{'\\n'}" '\n' ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/