[Python-ideas] Briefer string format

[Eric V. Smith]

On 8/4/2015 4:52 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> OK, fine, I'll say right now that I agree with Eric's arguments for full
> expressions.

Thanks.

> (Though honestly the whole look of f-strings hasn't quite grown on me. I
> wish I could turn back the clock and make expression substitution a
> feature of all string literals, perhaps using \{...}, which IIRC I've
> seen in some other language.)

Well, we could do that with a future statement. It might be tough to
ever make it the default, though.

But since it would only be literals, it's easy enough to find.

Eric.