I'm of the opposite opinion. Let's set the prefixes free!

    from sql import sql

    query = sql"SELECT user_id, user_name FROM {user_table_versioned} WHERE user_name = {user_name}"

This was considered and rejected: https://peps.python.org/pep-0750/#arbitrary-string-literal-p...

How would this be different from a function sql() that operates on one of these new t-strings?

The syntactic sugar of changing it from sql(t"...") doesn't seem particularly valuable. The novel thing about t-strings is that they change the parsing at compile-time.

> The syntactic sugar of changing it from sql(t"...") doesn't seem particularly valuable.

It's valuable because:

- IDEs could then syntax-highlight SQL inside of SQL strings and HTML inside of HTML strings

- You can't accidentally pass an HTML string to your SQL library

It’s different from a function the same way f”” is different from f(“”) and t”” is different from t(“”)

There’s nothing stopping you from building a Python function that parses a string looking for {} and then searching globals for those variables. And you can extend that to also do some code execution and formatting.

To me the real sugar of f-strings is that the editor knows that it’s a template and not just a string. Expanding this to having SQL and regex syntax highlighting, linting and code formatting inside my Python code is a pretty cool prospect.

It wouldn't be different, but it would be more convenient because we no longer have to count the number of %s, you'd put the variable inline.

That's... already the case of t-strings?

Yes, that's my point. The GP was already talking about a t-string.

dmurray was comparing a hypothetical sql"..." with sql(t"..."). There are no %s either way.

This is how JavaScript does it with tagged template literals.

Your sql there would just be a function that receives the array of strings/values and returns whatever.

This is what JS does with tagged template literals. https://github.com/dsego/sql_tag

Are there string prefixes for i18n stuff?

They're probably talking about the convention of using _ as an alias for `translate`

"Yet another" is not my main worry

The concept of prefixes itself feels a little deviant from readable code that is close to human language -- which is the spirit of Python

Additionally, it will probably be confusing that it is called a t-string but it is actually a constructor for a Template object and not string at all. I would rather see a new special term `template` than this.

The single letter f or t does make it unnatural to read, but if it were sql"..." or html"...", I think that would help with that.

Should have been a keyword.

    a = template "foo {bar}"

As should raw and format.