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

Posted by kristianemil
kristianemil
4,632 Points

I'm not sure I understand this code-challenge.

The challenge description is ungratefully cryptic. Can someone explain this to me in layman's term. I also keep getting back: BUMMER! 'emil' as feedback whenever I check my work – not very constructive I think.

Thanks in advance :-)

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(data):
    list = []
    for value in data:
        list.append(template.format(name=value['emil'], food=value['pizza']))

    return list

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

1 Answer

Christopher Shaw
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Christopher Shaw
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Christopher Shaw
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Christopher Shaw
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 58,248 Points

In my experience, Bummer is normally a syntax error, in other words, you may have mistyped something. The tests cannot caputer ever possible mistake. What is emil?

kristianemil
kristianemil
4,632 Points

It usually says explicit when it is an syntax error. BUMMER may be something else or as you said a syntax error, nobody knows. 'emil' is my own name I used for the code-challenge :-)