A consequence of sharing the same syntax as regular string literals is
that characters in the replacement fields must not conflict with the
-quoting used in the outer formatted string literal. Also, escape
-sequences normally apply to the outer formatted string literal,
-rather than inner string literals::
+quoting used in the outer formatted string literal::
f"abc {a["x"]} def" # error: outer string literal ended prematurely
- f"abc {a[\"x\"]} def" # workaround: escape the inner quotes
f"abc {a['x']} def" # workaround: use different quoting
- f"newline: {ord('\n')}" # error: literal line break in inner string
- f"newline: {ord('\\n')}" # workaround: double escaping
- fr"newline: {ord('\n')}" # workaround: raw outer string
+Backslashes are not allowed in format expressions and will raise
+an error::
+
+ f"newline: {ord('\n')}" # raises SyntaxError
+
+To include a value in which a backslash escape is required, create
+a temporary variable.
+
+ >>> newline = ord('\n')
+ >>> f"newline: {newline}"
+ 'newline: 10'
See also :pep:`498` for the proposal that added formatted string literals,
and :meth:`str.format`, which uses a related format string mechanism.