On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 9:43 AM <e...@emilstenstrom.se> wrote: > > Your reply could easily be read as "this is a bad idea, and you shouldn't > have bothered writing it down". I hope that was not your intention, and > instead it comes from handling self-indulgent people expecting things from > you all day. I know, I get those requests too. I'll assume that was not > your intention in my answers below.
> Barry Scott wrote: > > I think this has been discussed before and rejected. > > Do you have a link to that discussion, or is this just from memory? What > should I search for to find this discussion? Why was it rejected? > Try googling "python-ideas string prefixes". Doing mimimal diligence is a reasonable expectation before writing up an idea. > If the tags are called as functions then you can do it today with this: > > def html(s): > > return s > > HEAD = html('<head>') > > If I'm not missing anything, this doesn't help with syntax highlighting? > Highlighting is the problem I'm talking about in my post above. > Not true. A syntax highlighter can certainly recognize html('...') just as it can recognize html'...'. --- Bruce
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