It is a limitation of f-strings, though. We're not allowed to use
backslashes within the f-string expression in curly braces. So to do what
you want you have to create another variable containing the quote character:

```
>>> blah = '"hi"'
>>> blah
'"hi"'
>>> q = '"'
>>> f'{blah.strip(q)}'
'hi'
```
--Hobson

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 12:21 PM Hobson Lane <hobson@totalgood.com> wrote:

> 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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