diff --git a/Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py b/Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py
index f10d72ea5547ee..7c80cb3e305f5a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py
@@ -636,8 +636,8 @@ def test_syntaxerror_multi_line_fstring(self):
             self.assertEqual(
                 stderr.splitlines()[-3:],
                 [
-                    b'    foo"""',
-                    b'          ^',
+                    b'    foo = f"""{}',
+                    b'               ^',
                     b'SyntaxError: f-string: empty expression not allowed',
                 ],
             )