A recent thread on the python-ideas mailing list explores adding a feature to Python, which is the normal fare for that forum. The problem being addressed is real, but may not be the highest-priority ...

You would think with a language as old as Python there wouldn't be much left to get excited about, but over the past few months PEP-572, a proposal to add a new feature, has been raising the blood ...

That's what f-strings were supposed to fix... unless you're deliberately trying to avoid the cost of formatting the string when logging is disabled, in which case it's a real shame that PEP 501 is ...