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 <storch...@gmail.com> wrote: > 04.12.19 16:02, Anders Munch пише: > > Victor Stinner [mailto:vstin...@python.org] 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(). > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/46VZ2Q6QNT444YM7MV66YV26IYNIQEQC/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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