How to escape f-strings in python 3.6?

Question

I have a string in which I would like curly-brackets, but also take advantage of the f-strings feature. Is there some syntax that works for this?

Here are two ways it does not work. I would like to include the literal text "{bar}" as part of the string.

foo = "test"
fstring = f"{foo} {bar}"

NameError: name 'bar' is not defined

fstring = f"{foo} \{bar\}"

SyntaxError: f-string expression part cannot include a backslash

Desired result:

'test {bar}'

Edit: Looks like this question has the same answer as How can I print literal curly-brace characters in python string and also use .format on it?, but you can only know that if you know that the format function uses the same rules as the f-string. So hopefully this question has value in tying f-string searchers to this answer.

Answer 1

Although there is a custom syntax error from the parser, the same trick works as for calling .format on regular strings.

Use double curlies:

>>> foo = 'test'
>>> f'{foo} {{bar}}'
'test {bar}'

It's mentioned in the spec here and the docs here.