> I've put together a proposal to have all strings be f-strings by default.
Please don't do that. Seriously.
There is this trend in the Python community of blurring the line between a plain string and a formatting operation on that string, but there is a fundamental difference between the two. Instead of trying to ignore that difference, the language should make the difference explicit. "Explicit is better than implicit" is one of the things I like so much about Python. Please don't throw that away.
There is and should be a clear and fundamental difference between a plain string and a string formatting operation. The plain string is clearly the more fundamental of the two, so it should be the default.
And then there's the whole issue of breaking code with such a change.
Again, please don't do it. Don't change the language in such a fundamental way.
Please don't do that. Seriously.
There is this trend in the Python community of blurring the line between a plain string and a formatting operation on that string, but there is a fundamental difference between the two. Instead of trying to ignore that difference, the language should make the difference explicit. "Explicit is better than implicit" is one of the things I like so much about Python. Please don't throw that away.
There is and should be a clear and fundamental difference between a plain string and a string formatting operation. The plain string is clearly the more fundamental of the two, so it should be the default.
And then there's the whole issue of breaking code with such a change.
Again, please don't do it. Don't change the language in such a fundamental way.