Python Programming The new f-strings in Python 3.6 Hurray! It’s Christmas time - and Python 3.6 has been released! One of the many goodies packed into the new release are formatted string literals, or simply called “f-strings”. In this blog post I’ll explain why this is good news. First, they are called f-strings because you need to prefix a string with the letter “f” in order to get an f-string,