【转帖】argument after ** must be a mapping, not list

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问题：

Create a function named string_factory that accepts a list of dictionaries and a string. Return a new list build by using .format() on the string, filled in by each of the dictionaries in the list.

Here's my code: Please help!

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):
  strings = []
  for items in dicts:
   string.format(**dicts) 
  return strings

print(string_factory(dicts, string))

方案：

Here you can see 2 possible ways of doing it:

First:

def string_factory(dictionary, strings):
  string_list = []
  for i in range(len(dictionary)):
    string_list.append(strings.format(**dictionary[i]))

  return string_list

Second:

def string_factory(dictionary, strings):
  string_list = []
  for element in dictionary:
    string_list.append(strings.format(**element))

  return string_list

采纳：

def string_factory(dicts, string):

  formatted = []
  for data in dicts:
    new_dict = data
    formatted.append(string.format(**new_dict))
  return formatted


print(string_factory(dicts, string))