On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:34 AM micro codery <ucod...@gmail.com> wrote:

> As pointed out already, f-strings and format are subtly different (not
> counting that one can eval and the other cannot). Besides quoting, the
> f-sting mini language has diverged from format's
> >>> spam="Spam"
> >>> f"{spam=}"
> "spam='Spam'"
> >>> "{spam=}".format(spam=spam)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> KeyError: 'spam='
>

Eric, what would you think of adding this feature to format()? It seems
doable (at least for keyword args -- for positional args I don't think it
makes sense).

Honestly, the rest of the discussion belongs on python-ideas.

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