f-strings giving SyntaxError?

Alexander Coffman picture Alexander Coffman · May 18, 2018 · Viewed 46.5k times · Source

I am getting an error message with my Atom reader here, where it is suggesting the first print.(f"message") is delivering an error:

File "/Users/permanentmajority/Desktop/Coding/learnpythonbook.py", line 75
    print(f"Let's talk about {my_name}.")
                                       ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
[Finished in 0.077s]

Code:

my_name = 'Zed A. Shaw'
my_age = 35 # not a lie
my_height = 74 # inches
my_weight = 180 #lbs
my_eyes = 'Blue'
my_teeth = 'White'
my_hair = 'Brown'

print(f"Let's talk about {my_name}.")
print(f"He's {my_height} inches tall.")
print(f"He's {my_weight} pounds heavy.")
print("Actually that's not too heavy.")
print(f"He's got {my_eyes} eyes and {my_hair} hair.")
print(f"His teeth are usually {my_teeth} depending on the coffee.")

Answer

InAFlash picture InAFlash · May 18, 2018

I think you have an old version of python. try upgrading to the latest version of python. F-string literals have been added to python since python 3.6. you can check more about it here