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There’s a nice syntactic sugar for debugging with f-strings: if you place an equal sign, it will print both the variable name and the value. For example: >

There’s a nice syntactic sugar for debugging with f-strings: if you place an equal sign, it will print both the variable name and the value. For example: >>> f"{name=}" 'name=Rodrigo'

bscphil 6y ago
I don't know how I missed this, I love it, thank you.
- pansa2 6y ago
  > I don't know how I missed this It wasn’t added until Python 3.8 (f-strings were new in 3.6).
  - bscphil 6y ago
    That makes sense. The big f-string tutorial people reference (and is the current top result on DuckDuckGo for "f-string") was written prior to 3.8.
pfranz 6y ago
Thanks for bringing attention to this! That has bugged me a lot when debugging in different languages and I only stumbled over it recently when reading the Python docs.