In which case, wouldn't "_" make a better literal prefix than "i"?

A better comparison might be between _"..." and f"...".

regards
Steve Holden


On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 5:37 AM Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]> wrote:

> 04.12.19 16:02, Anders Munch пише:
> > Victor Stinner [mailto:[email protected]] wrote:
> >> You may want to have a look at the deferred PEP 501 -- General purpose
> string interpolation:
> >> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0501/
> >
> > I'm struggling to see what i-strings would do for i18n that str.format
> doesn't do better.
>
> You would not need to repeat yourself.
>
>      _('{name} costs ${price:.2f}').format(name=name, price=price)
>
> vs
>
>      i'{name} costs ${price:.2f}'
>
> In addition, you need to translate the format for money (in some
> cultures you need not two digits after dot), and this is hard to do with
> str.format().
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