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		maxerickson on April 8, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby-like string interpolation in Python The typical way to do that is to reuse the interpreter infrastructure. This hack could be done with the ast: https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/ast.html#ast.NodeTransfo...

est on April 9, 2015 [–]

AST is cool, but you have to comply with Python's syntax.

the coding way you can invent any wild syntax.

maxerickson on April 9, 2015 | [–]

I guess my first approach to that would not involve overloading the import statement.

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