> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 3:13 PM Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > >On 08/30/2016 07:02 AM, Philipp A. wrote: > > Also the name “f-strings” is really misleading: They’re composite > > expressions that evaluate to strings. They can only be considered > > strings if you have no braced code parts in them. So I’m also still in > > favor of renaming them (e.g. to “f-literals”). > I don't have much of an opinion here. I think there's not a lot of > confusion to be had by calling them f-strings, but I think someone who > works with teaching python might have a better handle on that.
The problem is that "literal" is a technical term in the domain of compilers, and not a well known or self-explanatory term. Especially for beginners. I'd suggest something like "Format expression". ~Elazar
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