See https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-August/145979.html for details.

PEP-498 is going to be changed to disallow backslashes inside braces (the expression portions of an f-string).

However, I can't get that change done in time for 3.6 beta 1. So, this bug will disallow any backslashes in f-strings. Before the next beta, I'll implement the correct behavior.

This is a breaking change: f-strings like f'\\t{3}' which worked in 3.6 alphas will not work in 3.6 beta 1, but will work in beta 2. f-strings like f'{\'x\'}' which worked in 3.6 alphas, will not work in any beta or release version of 3.6.

•        result.append(f'  [Previous line repeated {count-3} more times]\\n')
  

•        result.append(f'  [Previous line repeated {count-3} more times]''\\n')
  

This looks a little ugly.

This looks a little ugly.

True. My goal is to get the simplest possible thing working now, and then before beta 2 fix it so that backslashes again work in the text portions of an f-string. After that, I'll fix this particular piece of code (and the others, plus the tests that can be made to work).

Here's an updated patch. I'm planning on committing it today.

New changeset d7ce127b5c0f by Eric V. Smith in branch 'default':
Closes bpo-27921: Disallow backslashes anywhere in f-strings. This is a temporary restriction. In 3.6 beta 2, the plan is to again allow backslashes in the string parts of f-strings, but disallow them in the expression parts.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d7ce127b5c0f

See bpo-27948 for adding backslashes back in to the string parts of an f-string.

New changeset 899ee1e68a8d by Eric V. Smith in branch 'default':
bpo-27921: Remove backslash from another f-string.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/899ee1e68a8d

New changeset 80eb6eb57537 by Eric V. Smith in branch 'default':
bpo-27921: Remove backslash from another f-string. I'll revert this change before beta 2.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/80eb6eb57537

New changeset fd4e4fa75260 by Eric V. Smith in branch 'default':
bpo-27921: Remove backslash from another f-string. I'll revert this change before beta 2. I also need to look in to why test_tools/test_unparse fails with the files that are now being skipped.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/fd4e4fa75260

I haven’t looked, but my guess at why test_unparse could fail would be trying to generate code for an f-string with control characters in. Maybe it is taking stuff like

f'''{x}
{y}
'''

and generating

f'{x}\n{y}\n'

New changeset df5b6d1c7ea8 by Benjamin Peterson in branch 'default':
fix skipping bpo-27921 for windows
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/df5b6d1c7ea8

The problem with test_unparse is that:
f'''{"'"}'''
becomes:
f'{"\'"}'
when it's run through Tools/parser/unparse.py.

I'll open another issue for this.

bpo-28002 tracks the problem with Tools/parser/unparse.py.