On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 09:05:39AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > f-strings are not literals. They are a form of eval(). > > Oh, that makes 'em sound way too scary :) They're more akin to a list > display - a syntactic structure that yields a well-defined object, and > has expressions inside it.
*shrug* Okay, but either way they certainly aren't a literal. Anyone who doubts that ought to disassemble an f-string and see for themselves: import dis code = compile("f'{x+1} {x-1}'", '', 'eval') dis.dis(code) -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/N7ENCWDZBJNYUI7FO627FW5L6MVHWGTW/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/