Why f-strings are better

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Edward K. Ream

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Sep 6, 2019, 3:14:09 PM9/6/19

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PEP 498, tells why, clearly, and in detail.

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Edward K. Ream

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Sep 6, 2019, 4:43:39 PM9/6/19

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On Friday, September 6, 2019 at 2:14:09 PM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote:

PEP 498, tells why, clearly, and in detail.

The PEP doesn't explicitly mention that pylint and pyflakes check the expressions in f-strings.

My tests show that pyflakes finds "local" misspellings. pylint finds "global" misspellings by checking attributes of classes and modules. This is great news.