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Comment by bloopernova | Hacker News Reader

oh cool, multi-line f-strings. With inline comments!

    f"This is the playlist: {", ".join([
        'Take me back to Eden',  # My, my, those eyes like fire
        'Alkaline',              # Not acid nor alkaline
        'Ascensionism'           # Take to the broken skies at last
    ])}"

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This probably isn't a good motivating example - my first thought was that this is an overcomplicated way to write

    "This is the playlist: " + ", ".join([
        'Take me back to Eden',  # My, my, those eyes like fire
        'Alkaline',              # Not acid nor alkaline
        'Ascensionism'           # Take to the broken skies at last
    ])

Which is easier to read and exactly as long.

(In fact, without 3.12-compatible syntax highlighting, my first intuition upon reading the first line would be to suspect the code of having a typo.)

I don't find that example particularly compelling. To me it's more legible using regular strings:

  "This is the playlist: " + ", ".join([
      "Take me back to Eden",  # My, my, those eyes like fire
      "Alkaline",              # Not acid nor alkaline
      "Ascensionism",          # Take to the broken skies at last
  ])"

edit: jinx

Some great choices in that playlist ;)

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