Guido van Rossum added the comment: I don't really care that much, but I personally think that it would be more consistent (and a simpler rule) if *no* f-string (not even ones without substitutions) were to be allowed as docstrings.
In all other examples that Raymond shows it's the syntactic form that matters -- no on b-strings, yes on r-strings, yes on concatenation (using space), no on +, etc. The language reference clearly defines f-strings as all strings with an f-prefix, and says that they *may* contain replacement fields. So it's clear that an f-string without replacements is still an f-string, and it is still distinguished from other strings. Hence I think it should not be allowed as a docstring. (Also, what purpose could using the f-prefix for a docstring possibly have? All the other allowable combinations do have a use.) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28739> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
