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I'm excited about this. I really like how JavaScript's tagged template literals https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... can help handle things like automatic HTML escaping or SQL parameterization, it looks like these will bring the same capability to Python.

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Yes! PEP 750 landed exactly there: as a pythonic parallel to JavaScript's tagged template strings. I'm hopeful that the tooling ecosystem will catch up soon so we see syntax coloring, formatting of specific t-string content types, etc. in the future.

I just wish it didn't get Pythonified in the process, e.g. needing to be a function call because backtick is hard to type on some keyboards, nearly having a completely separate concept of evaluating the arguments, etc. x`` vs x(t'') is a 2x blowup in terms of line-noise at worst.

I don't think that's the reason.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0750/#arbitrary-string-literal-p...

that gets solved by using a different quoting character for template literals.

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-750-tag-strings-for-writing...

> Backticks are traditionally banned from use in future language features, due to the small symbol. No reader should need to distinguish ` from ' at a glance. It’s entirely possible that the prevailing opinion on this has changed, but it’s certainly going to be easier to stick to the letter prefixes and regular quotes.

and earlier in the thread the difficulty in typing it for some is cited as another reason

That's fascinating, TIL backticks are banned from Python.

Yes, and I hope we will steal obj destructuring soon as well.

I mean, they took "yield" and @decorator, we have a trade deficit.

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