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Python Python Collections (Retired) Dictionaries String Formatting with Dictionaries

Posted by Maya Banitt
Maya Banitt
674 Points

'list' object has no attribute 'items'

I have looked at so many answers to this task challenge on forums and I still can't make it work. Can someone just post a picture of the correct answer? Thanks!

strings.py 
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):
  string = []
  for k, v in dicts.items():
    return (string.format(**dicts))
print (string_factory(dicts, string))

1 Answer

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Yeah, dicts is a list and lists don't have an .items() method. You need to loop through dicts and then you can get the key and value from each item in dicts.

def string_factory(dicts, string):
    strings = []
    for d in dicts:
        for k, v in d.items():
            # Do something here
    return strings