Evaluation of variable as f-string

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2023-01-27 21:31:05 +0100, Johannes Bauer wrote:
> > But if you really REALLY know what you're doing, just use eval()
> > directly.
> 
> I do, actually, but I hate it. Not because of the security issue, not
> because of namespaces, but because it does not reliably work:
> 
> >>> s = "{\"x\" * 4}"
> >>> eval("f'" + s + "'")
> 'xxxx'

That's exactly the result I expected. What did you expect?

        hp

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