f-string affected by quotation

Question

alien_o = {"Colour" : "Green"}
print(f"The colour is now {alien_o["Colour"]}.")

What's wrong with these lines of code? The closing bracket and the curly bracket is affected by the quotes, and I don't understand why.

Use single quotes `'` or triple quotes `'''` for the f-string. Something like this `print(f'The colour is now {alien_o["Colour"]}.')`. The rule is: if you are using single quotes outside, use double quotes inside and vice-versa. — accdias, Jun 11 '22 at 19:48
Yup. You can't do backslashes. F-strings are super convenient, but they do have some limitations, which are fortunately easy to manage — Mad Physicist, Jun 12 '22 at 05:25

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 12 '22 at 05:22

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It mixes up the ", try using 'Colour' instead of "Colour".

Because it thinks that the format string is f"The colour is now {alien_o[", which is not what you want.

edited Jun 12 '22 at 05:22

Edward Ji

answered Jun 11 '22 at 19:49

GreenButterfly

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