How can I print literal curly-brace characters in python string and also use .format on it?

Question

x = \" \\{ Hello \\} {0} \"
print(x.format(42))

gives me : Key Error: Hello\\\\

I want to print the output: {Hello} 42

Answer 1

You can do this by using raw string method by simply adding character 'r' without quotes before the string.

# to print '{I am inside braces}'
print(r'{I am inside braces}')