[issue30793] Parsing error on f-string-expressions containing strings with backslash
Anselm Kiefner
report at bugs.python.org
Wed Jun 28 14:58:13 EDT 2017
New submission from Anselm Kiefner:
Considering that
x = 3
f"{'hello' if x == 3 else 'goodbye'} world"
is a simple, elegant and powerful piece of code that works just as expected by itself, I often find myself stumbling and wondering why
f"text {'\n' if x == 3 else ''} text"
fails horribly just because of the \ within the extra quoted string that must be worked around with ugly code like
nl = "\n"
f"text {nl if x==3 else ''} text"
which really doesn't feel like python at all.
I am aware that the specification for f-strings says "no \ in expressions", but please consider that in this case, the \ is not really part of the expression but rather part of a string that isn't evaluated as part of the expression, which might just as well be referenced to by a variable.
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messages: 297206
nosy: Anselm Kiefner
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Parsing error on f-string-expressions containing strings with backslash
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7
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