Larry Hastings wrote: > On 4/14/21 1:42 PM, Baptiste Carvello wrote: > > Are there specific annoyances associated with quoting always, apart > > from the 2 more characters?
> Yes. Since the quoted strings aren't parsed by Python, syntax errors in > these strings go undetected until somebody does parse them (e.g. your > static type analyzer). This is a real problem. But in theory, your code editor (and python) *could* parse the strings. They generally don't, but I'm not sure asking them to do that is much harder than asking them to deal with new syntax. -jJ _______________________________________________ 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/JR2RKEEUI3WSIUBZOJ4J3EVRTVYGLXSU/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/