diff --git a/pandas/io/html.py b/pandas/io/html.py
index 5f38f866e1643..b8cb6679a9562 100644
--- a/pandas/io/html.py
+++ b/pandas/io/html.py
@@ -560,9 +560,7 @@ def _parse_tables(self, doc, match, attrs):
             unique_tables.add(table)
 
         if not result:
-            raise ValueError(
-                "No tables found matching pattern {patt!r}".format(patt=match.pattern)
-            )
+            raise ValueError(f"No tables found matching pattern {repr(match.pattern)}")
         return result
 
     def _text_getter(self, obj):
@@ -618,7 +616,7 @@ def _build_xpath_expr(attrs) -> str:
     if "class_" in attrs:
         attrs["class"] = attrs.pop("class_")
 
-    s = ["@{key}={val!r}".format(key=k, val=v) for k, v in attrs.items()]
+    s = [f"@{k}={repr(v)}" for k, v in attrs.items()]
     return "[{expr}]".format(expr=" and ".join(s))
 
 
@@ -661,8 +659,7 @@ def _parse_tables(self, doc, match, kwargs):
 
         # 1. check all descendants for the given pattern and only search tables
         # 2. go up the tree until we find a table
-        query = "//table//*[re:test(text(), {patt!r})]/ancestor::table"
-        xpath_expr = query.format(patt=pattern)
+        xpath_expr = f"//table//*[re:test(text(), {repr(pattern)})]/ancestor::table"
 
         # if any table attributes were given build an xpath expression to
         # search for them
@@ -682,9 +679,7 @@ def _parse_tables(self, doc, match, kwargs):
                         elem.getparent().remove(elem)
 
         if not tables:
-            raise ValueError(
-                "No tables found matching regex {patt!r}".format(patt=pattern)
-            )
+            raise ValueError(f"No tables found matching regex {repr(pattern)}")
         return tables
 
     def _equals_tag(self, obj, tag):
@@ -833,8 +828,7 @@ def _parser_dispatch(flavor):
     valid_parsers = list(_valid_parsers.keys())
     if flavor not in valid_parsers:
         raise ValueError(
-            "{invalid!r} is not a valid flavor, valid flavors "
-            "are {valid}".format(invalid=flavor, valid=valid_parsers)
+            f"{repr(flavor)} is not a valid flavor, valid flavors are {valid_parsers}"
         )
 
     if flavor in ("bs4", "html5lib"):
@@ -863,13 +857,13 @@ def _validate_flavor(flavor):
     elif isinstance(flavor, abc.Iterable):
         if not all(isinstance(flav, str) for flav in flavor):
             raise TypeError(
-                "Object of type {typ!r} is not an iterable of "
-                "strings".format(typ=type(flavor).__name__)
+                f"Object of type {repr(type(flavor).__name__)} "
+                f"is not an iterable of strings"
             )
     else:
-        fmt = "{flavor!r}" if isinstance(flavor, str) else "{flavor}"
-        fmt += " is not a valid flavor"
-        raise ValueError(fmt.format(flavor=flavor))
+        msg = repr(flavor) if isinstance(flavor, str) else str(flavor)
+        msg += " is not a valid flavor"
+        raise ValueError(msg)
 
     flavor = tuple(flavor)
     valid_flavors = set(_valid_parsers)
diff --git a/pandas/io/parsers.py b/pandas/io/parsers.py
index bbec148b8745d..7403e6d254d03 100755
--- a/pandas/io/parsers.py
+++ b/pandas/io/parsers.py
@@ -972,10 +972,10 @@ def _clean_options(self, options, engine):
             elif engine not in ("python", "python-fwf"):
                 # wait until regex engine integrated
                 fallback_reason = (
-                    "the 'c' engine does not support"
-                    " regex separators (separators > 1 char and"
-                    r" different from '\s+' are"
-                    " interpreted as regex)"
+                    "the 'c' engine does not support "
+                    "regex separators (separators > 1 char and "
+                    r"different from '\s+' are "
+                    "interpreted as regex)"
                 )
                 engine = "python"
         elif delim_whitespace:
@@ -990,9 +990,9 @@ def _clean_options(self, options, engine):
                 encodeable = False
             if not encodeable and engine not in ("python", "python-fwf"):
                 fallback_reason = (
-                    "the separator encoded in {encoding}"
-                    " is > 1 char long, and the 'c' engine"
-                    " does not support such separators".format(encoding=encoding)
+                    "the separator encoded in {encoding} "
+                    "is > 1 char long, and the 'c' engine "
+                    "does not support such separators".format(encoding=encoding)
                 )
                 engine = "python"
 
@@ -1021,21 +1021,19 @@ def _clean_options(self, options, engine):
         if "python" in engine:
             for arg in _python_unsupported:
                 if fallback_reason and result[arg] != _c_parser_defaults[arg]:
-                    msg = (
-                        "Falling back to the 'python' engine because"
-                        " {reason}, but this causes {option!r} to be"
-                        " ignored as it is not supported by the 'python'"
-                        " engine."
-                    ).format(reason=fallback_reason, option=arg)
-                    raise ValueError(msg)
+                    raise ValueError(
+                        f"Falling back to the 'python' engine because "
+                        f"{fallback_reason}, but this causes {repr(arg)} to be "
+                        f"ignored as it is not supported by the 'python' engine."
+                    )
                 del result[arg]
 
         if fallback_reason:
             warnings.warn(
                 (
-                    "Falling back to the 'python' engine because"
-                    " {0}; you can avoid this warning by specifying"
-                    " engine='python'."
+                    "Falling back to the 'python' engine because "
+                    "{0}; you can avoid this warning by specifying "
+                    "engine='python'."
                 ).format(fallback_reason),
                 ParserWarning,
                 stacklevel=5,
@@ -1056,8 +1054,8 @@ def _clean_options(self, options, engine):
             depr_default = _deprecated_defaults[arg]
 
             msg = (
-                "The '{arg}' argument has been deprecated "
-                "and will be removed in a future version.".format(arg=arg)
+                f"The {repr(arg)} argument has been deprecated and will be "
+                f"removed in a future version."
             )
 
             if result.get(arg, depr_default) != depr_default:
@@ -1081,9 +1079,8 @@ def _clean_options(self, options, engine):
         if converters is not None:
             if not isinstance(converters, dict):
                 raise TypeError(
-                    "Type converters must be a dict or"
-                    " subclass, input was "
-                    "a {0!r}".format(type(converters).__name__)
+                    f"Type converters must be a dict or subclass, "
+                    f"input was a {repr(type(converters).__name__)}"
                 )
         else:
             converters = {}
diff --git a/pandas/plotting/_core.py b/pandas/plotting/_core.py
index beb276478070e..375e6fe2b02c7 100644
--- a/pandas/plotting/_core.py
+++ b/pandas/plotting/_core.py
@@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ def _get_call_args(backend_name, data, args, kwargs):
         if args and isinstance(data, ABCSeries):
             positional_args = str(args)[1:-1]
             keyword_args = ", ".join(
-                f"{name}={value!r}" for (name, default), value in zip(arg_def, args)
+                f"{name}={repr(value)}" for (name, default), value in zip(arg_def, args)
             )
             msg = (
                 "`Series.plot()` should not be called with positional "
diff --git a/pandas/tests/computation/test_eval.py b/pandas/tests/computation/test_eval.py
index 1146b486a3eb4..2208fbf933387 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/computation/test_eval.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/computation/test_eval.py
@@ -1114,11 +1114,11 @@ def test_performance_warning_for_poor_alignment(self, engine, parser):
             if not is_python_engine:
                 assert len(w) == 1
                 msg = str(w[0].message)
+                loged = np.log10(s.size - df.shape[1])
                 expected = (
-                    "Alignment difference on axis {0} is larger"
-                    " than an order of magnitude on term {1!r}, "
-                    "by more than {2:.4g}; performance may suffer"
-                    "".format(1, "df", np.log10(s.size - df.shape[1]))
+                    f"Alignment difference on axis 1 is larger "
+                    f"than an order of magnitude on term 'df', "
+                    f"by more than {loged:.4g}; performance may suffer"
                 )
                 assert msg == expected
 
diff --git a/pandas/tests/frame/test_alter_axes.py b/pandas/tests/frame/test_alter_axes.py
index 6206b333d29e1..b52f24f9e06f1 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/frame/test_alter_axes.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/frame/test_alter_axes.py
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ def __init__(self, name, color):
                 self.color = color
 
             def __str__(self) -> str:
-                return "<Thing {self.name!r}>".format(self=self)
+                return f"<Thing {repr(self.name)}>"
 
             # necessary for pretty KeyError
             __repr__ = __str__
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ def __init__(self, name, color):
                 self.color = color
 
             def __str__(self) -> str:
-                return "<Thing {self.name!r}>".format(self=self)
+                return f"<Thing {repr(self.name)}>"
 
         thing1 = Thing("One", "red")
         thing2 = Thing("Two", "blue")
diff --git a/pandas/tests/frame/test_query_eval.py b/pandas/tests/frame/test_query_eval.py
index cd1bee356ed8e..abd8ef98ff871 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/frame/test_query_eval.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/frame/test_query_eval.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ def engine(request):
 
 def skip_if_no_pandas_parser(parser):
     if parser != "pandas":
-        pytest.skip("cannot evaluate with parser {0!r}".format(parser))
+        pytest.skip(f"cannot evaluate with parser {repr(parser)}")
 
 
 class TestCompat:
diff --git a/pandas/tests/indexes/timedeltas/test_timedelta.py b/pandas/tests/indexes/timedeltas/test_timedelta.py
index ba0af7dd8136c..d59b6c18f6042 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/indexes/timedeltas/test_timedelta.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/indexes/timedeltas/test_timedelta.py
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ def test_pickle(self):
     def test_hash_error(self):
         index = timedelta_range("1 days", periods=10)
         with pytest.raises(
-            TypeError, match=("unhashable type: {0.__name__!r}".format(type(index)))
+            TypeError, match=(f"unhashable type: {repr(type(index).__name__)}")
         ):
             hash(index)
 
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/parser/test_unsupported.py b/pandas/tests/io/parser/test_unsupported.py
index b23ddf5bd9292..07ab41b47bf27 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/parser/test_unsupported.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/parser/test_unsupported.py
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ def test_python_engine(self, python_engine):
 
         for default in py_unsupported:
             msg = (
-                "The {default!r} option is not supported with the {python_engine!r}"
-                " engine"
-            ).format(default=default, python_engine=python_engine)
+                f"The {repr(default)} option is not "
+                f"supported with the {repr(python_engine)} engine"
+            )
 
             kwargs = {default: object()}
             with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=msg):
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/test_html.py b/pandas/tests/io/test_html.py
index d8d617ceeebff..353946a311c1a 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/test_html.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/test_html.py
@@ -902,8 +902,8 @@ def test_computer_sales_page(self, datapath):
 
     def test_wikipedia_states_table(self, datapath):
         data = datapath("io", "data", "html", "wikipedia_states.html")
-        assert os.path.isfile(data), "{data!r} is not a file".format(data=data)
-        assert os.path.getsize(data), "{data!r} is an empty file".format(data=data)
+        assert os.path.isfile(data), f"{repr(data)} is not a file"
+        assert os.path.getsize(data), f"{repr(data)} is an empty file"
         result = self.read_html(data, "Arizona", header=1)[0]
         assert result["sq mi"].dtype == np.dtype("float64")
 
diff --git a/pandas/tests/test_strings.py b/pandas/tests/test_strings.py
index 3c97b75ecfa0c..0e2f8ee6543e1 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/test_strings.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/test_strings.py
@@ -296,10 +296,8 @@ def test_api_per_method(
         else:
             # GH 23011, GH 23163
             msg = (
-                "Cannot use .str.{name} with values of inferred dtype "
-                "{inferred_dtype!r}.".format(
-                    name=method_name, inferred_dtype=inferred_dtype
-                )
+                f"Cannot use .str.{method_name} with values of "
+                f"inferred dtype {repr(inferred_dtype)}."
             )
             with pytest.raises(TypeError, match=msg):
                 method(*args, **kwargs)