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
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