Support backticks like JS

[cyberphone]

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

a = 'a long line with a line-break \n in the middle'

Using backticks.

a = `a long line with a line-break 
in the middle`

Primary usage: exec()

Other uses include input to JSON and CBOR APIs:

lcbor = CBOR.from_diagnostic(`{
# Comments are also permitted
  1: 45.7,
  2: "Hi there!"
}`).encode();

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

No response given

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

No response

[StanFromIreland]

Hello, please open a thread with your idea in the Ideas category of the Python discourse, note that it is an extremely long and difficult process to change the Python language, and it is unlikely your idea will be accepted.

[ronaldoussoren]

Multi-line strings are already supported, but with a different syntax:

a = """a long line with a line-break 
in the middle"""

Template strings, including multi-line ones, are supported in Python 3..14 or later: t"hello {name}".

It is unlikely that a different spelling of the same feature will be added to the language.

[cyberphone]

@ronaldoussoren Thanx!