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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Dictionaries String Formatting with Dictionaries

Posted by Tiago Ramos
Tiago Ramos
2,380 Points

I'm I doing it right?

Hi guys another trial to solve this problem.

Am I using the passing the (**values) right?

string_factory.py 
# 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!"]

def string_factory(values):
    return template.format(**values)

template = "Hi, I'm {name} and I love to eat {food}!"

string_factory(values)

1 Answer

Rich Zimmerman
Rich Zimmerman
24,063 Points
Rich Zimmerman
Rich Zimmerman
24,063 Points

Close, but values is a List of Dicts, so you want to iterate over it, and you want the function to return a new List of the template formatted with the values in each Dict in "values". So you'd want something like this

def string_factory(list_of_dicts):
    new_list = []
    for item in list_of_dicts:
        new_list.append(template.format(name=item['name'], food=item['food']))
    return new_list