Allow the usage of the grave accent character (`) for string literals and string formatting

[harmin-parra]

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

Currently, string literals in python are surrounded by apostrophes (') or quotation marks (")

a = "first string"
b = 'second string'

The inconvenience is that if we want a string containing both ' and ", we need to escape them

c = "string with \" and ' characters"
d = 'string with " and \' characters'
e = f"string {a} with \" and {b} with ' characters"

It would be nice to use the accent character as a third option to surround string literals and string substitutions, so I can do

f = `string with " and ' characters without escaping`
g = f`string {a} with " and {b} with ' characters without escaping`

It is the case with Javascript and node.js

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

No response given

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

No response

[rruuaanng]

This may add an additional string representation, which I think should be considered seriously, rather than blindly following the implementation of other languages. I'm trying to test this change.

[rruuaanng]

I almost forgot, it seems that this can meet your need

s = ''' 'a' "b" '''
s = f''' '{1}' "{1}" '''

[skirpichev]

Yet another type of quotes is not a minor feature request - this is something, that should be discussed on https://discuss.python.org/c/ideas/6 first. Then we can consider to reopen this issue.

[terryjreedy]

Backticks were part of Python syntax until 2.7 as +- equivalent to repr. They were not popular with most people and reuse would face opposition. Any discussion should start with a review of the discussion then.

[harmin-parra]

I almost forgot, it seems that this can meet your need

s = ''' 'a' "b" '''
s = f''' '{1}' "{1}" '''

Thanks for the tip