On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 7:05 PM Mike Miller <python-id...@mgmiller.net> wrote:
> > On 2022-04-06 12:36, Paul Moore wrote: > > > And if new syntax is a clear win even with such a library, > > then designing a language feature that enables better syntax for that > > library would still be possible (and there would be a clear use case > > for it, making the arguments easier to make). > > > If folks are really hung up on the syntax limits, there is shortcut to > prototype > new syntax using the codecs module to edit code on the fly. It's a cheat, > but > probably less work than writing a transpiler/dsl. > > Don't remember who invented the technique, but the last project I tried > was to > support f-strings under Python of pre-3.6 vintage, called future-fstrings: > > https://github.com/asottile-archive/future-fstrings > > There is also my ideas module https://aroberge.github.io/ideas/docs/html/ which I created to facilitate this type of exploration. In fact, I made a note just two days ago about doing this myself https://github.com/aroberge/ideas/issues/16 André > Should be enough there to show how it's done. > > Why not try this technique, combine with one of the libraries, and start > writing > some code? If it works well enough and enough folks are interested, the > proposal would all the evidence it needs, imho. > > -Mike > > _______________________________________________ > 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/MKZW5UORORGDSP7EVEDM2HCYOET4RY4J/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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