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

Posted by Chris van Beem
Chris van Beem
Courses Plus Student 26,647 Points

String_factory, Why doesn't this work?

i dont know why this doesnt work, im kinda stuck

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!"]
dicts = [
    {'name': 'Michelangelo',
     'food': 'PIZZA'},
    {'name': 'Garfield',
     'food': 'lasanga'},
    {'name': 'Walter',
     'food': 'pancakes'},
    {'name': 'Galactus',
     'food': 'worlds'}
]
string = "Hi, I'm {name} and I love to eat {food}!"
def string_factory(dicts, string):
    result= []
    for i in dicts:
        result.append(string.format(**i))
    return(result)

1 Answer

Stuart Wright
Stuart Wright
41,119 Points
Stuart Wright
Stuart Wright
41,119 Points

You're very close. The challenge doesn't ask you to pass a string into the function. All I had to do to get your code to pass was cut/paste your 'string = ...' line from outside the function to inside:

def string_factory(dicts):
    string = "Hi, I'm {name} and I love to eat {food}!"
    result= []
    for i in dicts:
        result.append(string.format(**i))
    return(result)

Your function is actually more useful than the 'correct' solution since it allows different template strings to be passed in - it just wasn't quite what was asked.