[Tutor] Merge a dictionary into a string

[Alex Kleider]

On 2019-03-16 10:39, Valerio Pachera wrote:
> Consider this:
> 
> import collections
> d = OrderedDict(a='hallo', b='world')
> 
> I wish to get a single string like this:
> 
> 'a "hallo" b "world"'
> 
> Notice I wish the double quote to be part of the string.
> In other words I want to wrap the value of a and b.
> 
> I was thinking to use such function I created:
> 
> def mywrap(text, char='"'):
>     return(char + text + char)
> 
> I can't think anything better than
> 
> s = ''
> for k, v in d.items():
>      s += ' '.join( (k, mywrap(v)) ) + ' '
> 
> or
> 
> s = ''
> for k, v in d.items():
>     s += k + ' ' + mywrap(v) + ' '
> 
> What do you think?
> It's fine enough but I wonder if there's a better solution.
> 

Would the following not  give you what you want:
(I've not used OrderedDict but I believe it would work for dict so 
assume ok for OrderedDict.)

my_which_string = "a = '{a}'  b = '{b}'".format(**d)