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Megan Ruprecht
1,013 PointsHelp with Unpacking
Hi! I'm very confused about this whole unpacking situation. Could someone help?
def favorite_food(dict):
return "Hi, I'm {} and I love to eat {}!".format(dict["name"], dict["food"])
favorite_food(**{"name ": "Megan", "food": "Tacos"})
1 Answer
Viraj Deshaval
4,874 PointsTo solve this challenge you only need to unpack Dictionary as below.
def favorite_food(dict):
return "Hi, I'm {name} and I love to eat {food}!".format(**dict)
What this does is, we pass the keyword argument while calling the function and then we grab this key word arguments into dict variable and unpack it. When you pass **dict you are actually now unpacking the key word arguments. I hope this helps. Let me know if you still require more explanation.
Megan Ruprecht
1,013 PointsIt works! Thanks! I was just confused about where to put the "**"
csr13
33,292 Pointscsr13
33,292 PointsAlright Megs:
Inside of the function we need create two variables: "name" and "food"
Now, the "name" and "food" variables need to receive the VALUES of the KEYS that are inside the dictionary being passed to the function favorite_food... I know you know how to do that.
name = dict['name']
I bet you now now how to create the second variable "food"
Second step is to return the string with our two new created variables inside the format(name, food) function.