Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

Currently the repr output for template strings shows how the data is stored internally, but this is not how the template could be reconstructed via an constructor call and the format is unintuitive since the template parts are not output in the order they appear in the template source. The repr result should output the parts in the order as iterating over the template object does, i.e.

x = 1
y = 2
print(repr(t'{x} + {y}'))

should print

Template(Interpolation(1, 'x', None, ''), ' + ', Interpolation(2, 'y', None, ''))

instead of

Template(strings=('', ' + ', ''), interpolations=(Interpolation(1, 'x', None, ''), Interpolation(2, 'y', None, '')))

This has already been discussed at https://discuss.python.org/t/repr-output-of-t-strings/107653

I'm working on a patch/pull request.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

I have already discussed this feature proposal on Discourse

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

https://discuss.python.org/t/repr-output-of-t-strings/107653

Linked PRs

• gh-151099: Better repr output for template strings. #151104