Python offers a powerful feature calledf-strings (formatted string literals) to simplify string formatting and interpolation.f-strings is introduced in Python 3.6 it provides a concise and intuitive way to embed expressions and variables directly into strings. The idea behind f-strings is to make string interpolation simpler. 

How to use f-strings in Python

To create an f-string, prefix the string with the letter “f”. The string itself can be formatted in much the same way that you would withstr.format(). F-strings provide a concise and convenient way to embed Python expressions inside string literals for formatting. 

Print Variables using f-string in Python

In the below example, we have used the f-string inside a print() method to print a string. We use curly braces to use a variable value inside f-strings, so we define a variable 'val' with 'Geeks' and use this inside as seen in the code below'val' with'Geeks'. Similarly, we use the 'name'andthevariable inside a second print statement.

# Python3 program introducing f-stringval='Geeks'print(f"{val}for{val} is a portal for{val}.")name='Om'age=22print(f"Hello, My name is{name} and I'm{age} years old.")

Output

GeeksforGeeks is a portal for Geeks.
Hello, My name is Om and I'm 22 years old.

Print date using f-string in Python

In this example, we have printed today's date using thedatetimemodule in Python withf-string. For that firstly, we import the datetime module after that we print the date using f-sting. Inside f-string'today'assigned the current date and%B,%d, and%Y represents thefull month,day of month, andyear respectively.

# Prints today's date with help# of datetime libraryimportdatetimetoday=datetime.datetime.today()print(f"{today:%B %d, %Y}")

Output

May 23, 2024

Note: F-strings are faster than the two most commonly used string formatting mechanisms, which are % formatting and str.format(). 

Quotation Marks in f-string in Python

To use any type of quotation marks with the f-string in Python we have to make sure that the quotation marks used inside the expression are not the same as quotation marks used with the f-string.

print(f"'GeeksforGeeks'")print(f"""Geeks"for"Geeks""")print(f'''Geeks'for'Geeks''')

Output

'GeeksforGeeks'
Geeks"for"Geeks
Geeks'for'Geeks

Evaluate Expressions with f-Strings in Python

We can also evaluate expressions with f-strings in Python. To do so we have to write the expression inside the curly braces in f-string and the evaluated result will be printed as shown in the below code's output.

english=78maths=56hindi=85print(f"Ram got total marks{english+maths+hindi} out of 300")

Output

Ram got total marks 219 out of 300

Errors while using f-string in Python

Backslashes in f-string in Python

In Python f-string, Backslash Cannot be used in format string directly.

f"newline:{ord('\n')"

Output

Hangup (SIGHUP)
  File "Solution.py", line 1
    f"newline: {ord('\n')"
    ^
SyntaxError: f-string expression part cannot include a backslash

However, we can put the backslash into a variable as a workaround though :

newline=ord('\n')print(f"newline:{newline}")

Output

newline: 10

Inline comments in f-string in Python

We cannot use comments inside F-string expressions. It will give an error:

f"GeeksforGeeks is{5*2+3#geeks-5} characters."

Output:

Hangup (SIGHUP)
  File "Solution.py", line 1
    f"GeeksforGeeks is {5*2 + 3 #geeks-5} characters."
    ^
SyntaxError: f-string expression part cannot include '#'

Printing Braces using f-string in Python

If we want to show curly braces in the f-string's output then we have to use double curly braces in the f-string. Note that for each single pair of braces, we need to type double braces as seen in the below code.

# Printing single bracesprint(f"{{Hello, Geek}}")# Printing double bracesprint(f"{{{{Hello, Geek}}}}")

Output

{Hello, Geek}
{{Hello, Geek}}

Printing Dictionaries key-value using f-string in Python

While working with dictionaries, we have to make sure that if we are using double quotes (") with the f-string then we have to use single quote (') for keys inside the f-string in Python and vice-versa. Otherwise, it will throw a syntax error.

Geek={'Id':112,'Name':'Harsh'}print(f"Id of{Geek["Name"]} is{Geek["Id"]}")

Output

Hangup (SIGHUP)
  File "Solution.py", line 4
    print(f"Id of {Geek["Name"]} is {Geek["Id"]}")
                            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Using the same type of quotes for f-string and key

Geek={'Id':100,'Name':'Om'}print(f"Id of{Geek['Name']} is{Geek['Id']}")

Output

Id of Om is 100

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