Python formatting string invalid syntax

Question

In python 3.7, I have this very simple script. Why is this throwing a invalid syntax error?

datestr = '2020-06-10'
print(f"C:/folder/{datestr.replace("-", "_")}/temp.csv")


 File "<ipython-input-38-95d22e47df04>", line 2
    print(f"C:/folder/{datestr.replace("-", "_")}/temp.csv")
                                             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Answer 1

You are trying to use " for different purposes in the same string. You can interchange it with ' to stop any confusion between string operations and terminating a string:

datestr = '2020-06-10'
print(f"C:/folder/{datestr.replace('-', '_')}/temp.csv")

Hope this helps!