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Michael Williams
7,493 PointsHi, how do string format placeholders "name" and "food" between the {} have an effect on answering this challenge?
template = "Hi, I'm {name} and I love to eat {food}!"
After removing these from the string assigned to the variable "template", the tests no longer passed. Any help would be greatly appreciated especially a documented Python source. Thanks in advance.
# Example:
# values = [{"name": "Michelangelo", "food": "PIZZA"}, {"name": "Garfield", "food": "lasagna"}]
# string_factory(values)
# ["Hi, I'm Michelangelo and I love to eat PIZZA!", "Hi, I'm Garfield and I love to eat lasagna!"]
template = "Hi, I'm {name} and I love to eat {food}!"
1 Answer
Stuart Wright
41,120 PointsThose are keyword placeholders, and remember you're passing a dictionary to be unpacked as the arguments of this function. Dictionaries have keys ('name' and 'food' in this case). Without the named placeholders, there's no way for the program to know which dictionary value goes where.
Not an official source, but here's a related conversation on StackOverflow which will hopefully help to get your head around this idea:
Michael Williams
7,493 PointsMichael Williams
7,493 PointsThank you Stuart for the prompt reply! This is what I was looking for to assist with the understanding.