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Comment by abdusco | Hacker News Reader

Not mentioned in the article, but with Python 3.8, f-strings have gained the ability to print debug information using `=` specifier.

    name = 'world'
    print(f'hello {name.upper()=}')

outputs:

    hello name.upper()='WORLD'

It's small, but very useful in debugging an issue or logging something to the console.

That's something I didn't know, but will know be using.

This is neat! I can think of several instances where this would be useful in my code

The fact that it can only output to a single hardcoded file already proves that it is not way better in the general case.