Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 498: Literal String Interpolation

2015-08-31 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 30 August 2015 at 23:41, Eric V. Smith wrote: > Note there's a companion PEP 501 which extends this idea by delaying > converting the expression into a string. This allows for more control > over how the expressions are converted in to strings, and allows for > non-string conversions as well.

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 498: Literal String Interpolation

2015-08-31 Thread Yury Selivanov
On 2015-08-31 9:10 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On 30 August 2015 at 23:41, Eric V. Smith wrote: Note there's a companion PEP 501 which extends this idea by delaying converting the expression into a string. This allows for more control over how the expressions are converted in to strings, and allo

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 498: Literal String Interpolation

2015-08-31 Thread Eric V. Smith
On 8/31/2015 4:08 PM, Yury Selivanov wrote: > > > On 2015-08-31 9:10 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> On 30 August 2015 at 23:41, Eric V. Smith wrote: >>> Note there's a companion PEP 501 which extends this idea by delaying >>> converting the expression into a string. This allows for more control >>>

Re: [Python-Dev] ZIP File Instead of Installer

2015-08-31 Thread Steve Holden
Hi Alex, Thanks for your email, and the suggestion. A couple of things … First, as webmaster we are simply volunteers who try to accept and process feedback *about the python.org web site*. We aren’t (mostly) actively involved in the development of the language, though we a

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 498: Literal String Interpolation

2015-08-31 Thread Eric V. Smith
On 8/31/2015 5:07 PM, Eric V. Smith wrote: > That's all correct. I have to say that I like PEP 501 mainly for its > non-string use cases. That is, interpolators that don't produce strings. > Note that this isn't possible with PEP 502's proposal. Let me rephrase that: with PEP 502, it must be possi

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 498: Literal String Interpolation

2015-08-31 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 1 Sep 2015 07:35, "Eric V. Smith" wrote: > > But back to PEP 498: I can't imagine accepting either PEP 501 or 502 > without also accepting PEP 498. And once you've accepted 498, are i- or > e-strings sufficiently powerful and useful enough, and are they likely > to be used in the correct way? I