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Author Mital Ashok
Recipients Mital Ashok
Date 2017-07-17.22:09:08
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Take this format python code:

    import unicodedata
    c = chr(0x012345)

To print that character as a string literal, you would expect to do:

    print(f"'\\N{{{unicodedata.name(c)}}}'")

Which should print a literal quote (`'`), a backwards slash (`\\` -> `\`), an `N`, and the two `{{` should escape and print `{`, followed by the f-expression `unicodedata.name(c)`, then the `}}` would print one `}`, and then another literal quote (`'`).

However, this raises a `SyntaxError: f-string: single '}' is not allowed`. The way to do this without a syntax error is like so:

    print(f"'\\N{{unicodedata.name(c)}}}'")

Which prints the expected:

    '\N{CUNEIFORM SIGN URU TIMES KI}'

The shortest way to reproduce this is:

    f'\\N{'

Which works, and:

    f'\\N{{'

which raises an error, even though the first one should raise an error (`SyntaxError: f-string: expecting '}'`).
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