How to check python scripts for f-strings which are missing the f literal? (for pre-debugging / lint)

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I often forget to prefix formatted strings with "f".

A buggy example: text = "results is {result}"
Where it should be text = f"results is {result}"

I make this error A LOT; my IDE don't report it, and the program runs without exceptions.

I thought maybe to scan my source code for quoted strings, check for {,} characters, and search if it's missing a prefix "f" literal;

But it's better, i guess, to use a parser? Or maybe someone did it already?

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The problem is that text = "results is {result}" is a valid template string, so you can later use it in your program like:

>>> text.format(result=1)
'results is 1'
>>> text.format(result=3)
'results is 3'

What you can achieve is just checking if an f-string does indeed use variables inside, like pylint and flake8 already do.

For what you seek, however, there is something going on with PyLint: this issue is 3 years old, but it is exactly what you need, and recently - three days ago - an user submitted a pull request that is currently WIP, and should resolve your problem.

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