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

Posted by Zhuo Zhang
Zhuo Zhang
1,368 Points

Nothing sure what's wrong with my code

error message: string_factory() missing 1 required positional argument: 'string'

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(dicts, string):

    final_list = []

    for item in dicts:
        newlist = string.format(**dicts[dicts.index(item)])

        final_list.append(newlist)

    return final_list

2 Answers

sterling friese
sterling friese
1,145 Points
sterling friese
sterling friese
1,145 Points

The exercise asks for one argument to be a dictionary, nothing more. You could simply do:

def string_factory(values):
    return [template.format(**value) for value in values]

A thanks to Matthew Kelty for this solution.

Zhuo Zhang
Zhuo Zhang
1,368 Points
Zhuo Zhang
Zhuo Zhang
1,368 Points

Thank you! I did not expect to use "template" as a given variable. -_-