Python and F-Strings explanation

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No, 'snow' is a string literal, an expression that produces a string value. snow would be a variable name (note the lack of quotes).

Compare:

>>> 'snow'
'snow'
>>> snow
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'snow' is not defined
>>> snow = 42
>>> snow
42
>>> snow = 'snow'
>>> snow
'snow'

The variable snow at first wasn’t yet assigned to, so trying to use it caused an exception. I then assigned an integer to the name, and then the string with value 'snow'.

Formatting a string literal with another string literal is pretty meaningless. You’d normally use an actual variable, so you can vary the output produced:

compared_to = 'snow'
print("It's fleece was white as {}.".format(compared_to))

Also, that’s not an f string. An f string literal starts with a f character. What you have here is a regular, run-of-the-mill string literal, and a call to the str.format() method. The following is the equivalent expression using an f-string:

print(f"It's fleece was white as {'snow'}.")

See String with ‘f’ prefix in python-3.6 for more information on actual f-strings.

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