On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 at 02:31, Steven Barker <blckkn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> While f-strings in class scope could theoretically be valid docstrings a lot
> of the time, the equivalent situation for function docstrings is much less
> positive. A function like this the one below obviously problematic, since the
> f-string value is not a compile-time constant:
>
> def foo(x): f"is this a docstring? x is {x}"
>
> I'm pretty sure f-strings cannot be used as docstrings in other contexts
> because of how broken they'd be in functions.
>
I don't have a horse in the race of whether this should be allowed or
not for constant f-strings. I do however believe that having something
like the example given previously where the code doesn't do what it
appears to do, by silently not setting the docstring without giving a
warning, is bad behaviour.
--
Neil Muller
drnlmul...@gmail.com
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