Combine f-string and raw string literal

You can combine the f for an f-string with the r for a raw string:

user = 'Alex'
dirToSee = fr'C:\Users\{user}\Downloads'
print (dirToSee) # prints C:\Users\Alex\Downloads

The r only disables backslash escape sequence processing, not f-string processing.

Quoting the docs:

The 'f' may be combined with 'r', but not with 'b' or 'u', therefore raw formatted strings are possible, but formatted bytes literals are not.

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Unless an 'r' or 'R' prefix is present, escape sequences in string and bytes literals are interpreted...


Raw f-strings are very useful when dealing with dynamic regular expressions. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/#raw-f-strings contains a lot of useful information.


Alternatively, you could use the str.format() method.

name = input("What is your name? ")
print(r"C:\Users\{name}\Downloads".format(name=name))

This will format the raw string by inserting the name value.