Not a bug. If you use quotes inside an f-string (or any other kind of
string) they need to be escaped.
--Hobson

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 12:09 PM Ying Wang <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

>
> New submission from Ying Wang <yingw787.personal@gmail.com>:
>
> Hey,
>
> I encountered an interesting bug when trying to do string parsing using
> f-strings. I am currently under the impression that within the curly braces
> is any expression that can be successfully evaluated in a REPL. Here's the
> error:
>
> ```bash
> yingw787@yingw787-Oryx-Pro:~/src/gpudb-dev-v6.2.0/kio/kio/tests/regression/_data/csv$
> python
> Python 3.7.5 (default, Oct 15 2019, 21:38:37)
> [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> blah = '"hi"'
> >>> blah
> '"hi"'
> >>> f'{blah.strip('"')}'
>   File "<stdin>", line 1
>     f'{blah.strip('"')}'
>                        ^
> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
> >>> '{0}'.format(blah.strip('"'))
> 'hi'
> >>>
> ```
>
> I can use '.format()' for now, but it might be nice to align f-string expr
> behavior w/ .format(). Please let me know if you need more reproduction
> steps, or if you need a helping hand :)
>
> Thanks
> Ying
>
> ----------
> components: Interpreter Core
> messages: 355254
> nosy: yingw787
> priority: normal
> severity: normal
> status: open
> title: [3.7.5 x86_64 Linux] f-string parsing results in EOL
> type: behavior
> versions: Python 3.7
>
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