print repeating string with f-string

Question

I can print(‘#’*5) to >>> #####.

But if I try to do this with f-string like

a=5
print(f” ‘#’*{a}”) 

I get >>> ‘#’*5. Is this not possible, or what is my failure?

Answer 1

You can do:

a=5
print(f"{'#'*a}")

To get

#####