[Python-Dev] Parsing f-strings from PEP 498 -- Literal String Interpolation (original) (raw)

Fabio Zadrozny fabiofz at gmail.com
Thu Nov 3 15:06:21 EDT 2016

Hi Python-Dev,

I'm trying to get my head around on what's accepted in f-strings -- https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/ seems very light on the details on what it does accept as an expression and how things should actually be parsed (and the current implementation still doesn't seem to be in a state for a final release, so, I thought asking on python-dev would be a reasonable option).

I was thinking there'd be some grammar for it (something as https://docs.python.org/3.6/reference/grammar.html), but all I could find related to this is a quote saying that f-strings should be something as:

f ' { <optional !s, !r, or !a> }

So, given that, is it safe to assume that would be equal to the "test" node from the official grammar?

I initially thought it would obviously be, but the PEP says that using a lamda inside the expression would conflict because of the colon (which wouldn't happen if a proper grammar was actually used for this parsing as there'd be no conflict as the lamda would properly consume the colon), so, I guess some pre-parser steps takes place to separate the expression to then be parsed, so, I'm interested on knowing how exactly that should work when the implementation is finished -- lots of plus points if there's actually a grammar to back it up :)

Thanks,

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