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JoshTriplett on Aug 26, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Python Extension Proposal 498: Literal String Form...

This is a massive improvement. I currently use .format(), sometimes with locals(), but f-strings would improve this massively.

Now if only they didn't require Python 3, so I could use them on the production systems I'm working on...

ant6n on Aug 26, 2015 [–]

I switch back and forth between format and %, and never use locals in the format. It's annoying, every time a string is written, to try to decide which way is better for this instance. That said, is there a way to do ('%.3f' % x) with this?

JoshTriplett on Aug 26, 2015 | [–]

f'{x:.3f}'

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