diff --git a/tests/snippets/fstrings.py b/tests/snippets/fstrings.py
index bbda1302d7..2d25abf6dc 100644
--- a/tests/snippets/fstrings.py
+++ b/tests/snippets/fstrings.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from testutils import assert_raises
 foo = 'bar'
 
 assert f"{''}" == ''
@@ -19,6 +20,10 @@ assert f"{{{(lambda x: f'hello, {x}')('world}')}" == '{hello, world}'
 spec = "0>+#10x"
 assert f"{16:{spec}}{foo}" == '00000+0x10bar'
 
+# TODO:
+# spec = "bla"
+# assert_raises(ValueError, lambda: f"{16:{spec}}")
+
 # Normally `!` cannot appear outside of delimiters in the expression but
 # cpython makes an exception for `!=`, so we should too.