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Tenoke | 10 months ago

Again, just because a function accepts a t string it doesn't mean there's sanitization going on by default.

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tikhonj|10 months ago

Yes, but if a function accepts a template (which is a different type of object from a string!), either it is doing sanitization, or it explicitly implemented template support without doing sanitization—hard to do by accident!

The key point here is that a "t-string" isn't a string at all, it's a new kind of literal that's reusing string syntax to create Template objects. That's what makes this new feature fundamentally different from f-strings. Since it's a new type of object, libraries that accept strings will either have to handle it explicitly or raise a TypeError at runtime.

Tenoke|10 months ago

I'm not sure why you think it's harder to use them without sanitization - there is nothing inherent about checking the value in it, it's just a nice use.

You might have implemented the t-string to save the value or log it better or something and not even have thought to check or escape anything and definitely not everything (just how people forget to do that elsewhere).