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How to escape curly-brackets in f-strings?

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00:00 How To Escape Curly-Brackets In F-Strings?
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Although there is a custom syntax error from the parser, the same trick works as for calling .format on regular strings.

Use double curlies:

>>> foo = 'test'
>>> f'{foo} {{bar}}'
'test {bar}'

It's mentioned in the spec here and the docs here.