this library is no longer needed:
- python 2 and python3.5 have reached end of life
- micropython added f-strings support
A backport of fstrings to python<3.6.
pip install future-fstrings
Include the following encoding cookie at the top of your file (this replaces the utf-8 cookie if you already have it):
# -*- coding: future_fstrings -*-And then write python3.6 fstring code as usual!
# -*- coding: future_fstrings -*-
thing = 'world'
print(f'hello {thing}')$ python2.7 main.py
hello worldfuture-fstrings also includes a cli to show transformed source.
$ future-fstrings-show main.py
# -*- coding: future_fstrings -*-
thing = 'world'
print('hello {}'.format((thing)))The future-fstrings-show command can be used to transform source before
distributing. This can allow you to write f-string code but target platforms
which do not support f-strings, such as micropython.
To use this on modern versions of python, install using:
pip install future-fstrings[rewrite]and then use future-fstrings-show as above.
For instance:
future-fstrings-show code.py > code_rewritten.pyfuture-fstrings has two parts:
- A utf-8 compatible
codecwhich performs source manipulation- The
codecfirst decodes the source bytes using the UTF-8 codec - The
codecthen leverages tokenize-rt to rewrite f-strings.
- The
- A
.pthfile which registers a codec on interpreter startup.
in setups (such as aws lambda) where you utilize PYTHONPATH or sys.path
instead of truly installed packages, the .pth magic above will not take.
for those circumstances, you'll need to manually initialize future-fstrings
in a non-fstring wrapper. for instance:
import future_fstrings
future_fstrings.register()
from actual_main import main
if __name__ == '__main__':
raise SystemExit(main())