Getting a snytax error when creating a Jupyter book on Windows

Question

I have installed the Jupyter-book module in Python. On Windows 10, I run this command:

jupyter-book create mybookname

I get an syntax error, ending with this in the trace:

File "c:\users\steve\appdata\local\programs\python\python35\lib\site-packages\jupyter_book\build.py", line 92 f"{path_book}" ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Any ideas of what the syntax error is here? This is Python 3.5.3.

My first guess is that you've imported a Python 3.8 package into an older Python interpreter. — Prune, Mar 23 '20 at 20:56
Does this answer your question? [f-strings giving SyntaxError?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50401632/f-strings-giving-syntaxerror) — Jongware, Mar 23 '20 at 21:09
The answers below have helped. I didn't realize I needed Python >=3.6. Upgrading has fixed things. — way0utwest, Mar 23 '20 at 22:06

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 23 '20 at 20:56

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f"{path_book}" -- this is f-string, only available since Python 3.6 Try to create your notebook with Python 3.6 or higher.

answered Mar 23 '20 at 20:56

Oleg

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 23 '20 at 21:04

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jupyter-book requires python >=3.6.

Check it here: https://pypi.org/project/jupyter-book/

answered Mar 23 '20 at 21:04

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Getting a snytax error when creating a Jupyter book on Windows

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