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

Reese Lynn
Reese Lynn
974 Points
Posted by Reese Lynn
Reese Lynn
974 Points

What is going on?

I am getting an error, "Expected favorite_food({'name': 'Michelangelo', 'food': 'PIZZA'}) to return "Hi, I'm Michelangelo and I love to eat PIZZA!", but got "Hi, I'm Me and I love to eat qwerty!""

and when I used '''name="Michelangelo", food="PIZZA''', i got an error saying to use garfield and lasagna.

When I used garfield and lasagna, I got an error saying I have to use 'name': 'Michelangelo', 'food': 'PIZZA'.

WHY IS THIS?

Is this an error?

string_factory.py 
def favorite_food(dict):
    return "Hi, I'm {name} and I love to eat {food}!".format(name="Me", food="qwerty")

2 Answers

Duc Bui
Duc Bui
14,546 Points
Duc Bui
Duc Bui
14,546 Points 
def favorite_food(dict):
    return "Hi, I'm {name} and I love to eat {food}!".format(**dict)
Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

It looks like you're passing in the wrong values to the dictionary. The Error is telling you that it's expecting particular values to pass the challenge, Michaelangelo, and PIZZA. Try putting those in and see if that passes! :-)