diff --git a/Lib/test/test_fstring.py b/Lib/test/test_fstring.py
index e8bf420d699..9815b7c28f2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_fstring.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_fstring.py
@@ -1084,6 +1084,7 @@ x = (
                              "f'{'",
                              "f'x{<'",  # See bpo-46762.
                              "f'x{>'",
+                             "f'{i='",  # See gh-93418.
                              ])
 
         # But these are just normal strings.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-06-01-17-47-40.gh-issue-93418.24dJuc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-06-01-17-47-40.gh-issue-93418.24dJuc.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..74ad06bfeee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-06-01-17-47-40.gh-issue-93418.24dJuc.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fixed an assert where an f-string has an equal sign '=' following an
+expression, but there's no trailing brace. For example, f"{i=".
diff --git a/Parser/string_parser.c b/Parser/string_parser.c
index c56ed20ad4c..984c05d39c1 100644
--- a/Parser/string_parser.c
+++ b/Parser/string_parser.c
@@ -756,7 +756,9 @@ fstring_find_expr(Parser *p, const char **str, const char *end, int raw, int rec
         while (Py_ISSPACE(**str)) {
             *str += 1;
         }
-
+        if (*str >= end) {
+            goto unexpected_end_of_string;
+        }
         /* Set *expr_text to the text of the expression. */
         *expr_text = PyUnicode_FromStringAndSize(expr_start, *str-expr_start);
         if (!*expr_text) {