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what's really wrong with this f-string?
Skaperen
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Oct-31-2019, 02:02 AM
what's really wrong with this f-string? the quotes look right so it must be the backslash.
Output:
>>> a=432
>>> s=f'{a} "\{"'
  File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: f-string: unterminated string
>>>
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Oct-31-2019, 05:31 AM (This post was last modified: Oct-31-2019, 05:32 AM by Gribouillis.)
In the format() syntax, one escapes curly braces by doubling them. It should probably be s=f'{a} "{{"'
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