t-strings in Python (PEP 750)

Python has many string formatting styles which have been added to the language over the years. Early Python used the % operator to injected formatted values into strings. And we have string.format() which offers several powerful styles. Both were verbose and indirect, so f-strings were added in Python 3.6. But these f-strings lacked security features (think little bobby tables) and they manifested as fully-formed strings to runtime code. Today we talk about the next evolution of Python string formatting for advanced use-cases (SQL, HTML, DSLs, etc): t-strings. We have Paul Everitt, David Peck, and Jim Baker on the show to introduce this upcoming new language feature.

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Guests:

Paul on X: @paulweveritt

Paul on Mastodon: @pauleveritt@fosstodon.org

Dave Peck on Github: github.com

Jim Baker: github.com

PEP 750 – Template Strings: peps.python.org

tdom - Placeholder for future library on PyPI using PEP 750 t-strings: github.com