Wellington Python Meetup

Simon Merrick: Disentangling formatted strings with t-strings

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any time before the event

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Python talks! Python people! Discussions from how to start learning Python through to debugging your robot pirate spaceship avionics controller library.
If all goes well there will also be pizza and drinks.

• We meet for PyTHon every THird THursday of a month at 6pm.
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Simon Merrick: Disentangling formatted strings with t-string
In October 2025, Python 3.14 was released and with it t-strings, which promise to help python developers write better, and safer python code. While on the surface, t-string share a similar name to f-strings and are instantiated with a similar syntax, the resulting Template type, and the intended usage and audience there of is not always immediately understood. This talk explores what they are, how they work, who they are for and how they are core to a python philosophy of using constructs and guardrails to helping python developers write safer code.