Strings Formatting and Kwargs

Question

The following code works correctly:

def myfunc(**kwargs):
if 'fruit' in kwargs:
    print('my fruit of choice is {}'.format(kwargs['fruit']))
else:
    print('No Fruit Here')
myfunc(fruit = 'apple', veggie = 'lettuce)

The following code returns an error:

def myfunc(**kwargs):
if 'fruit' in kwargs:
    print(f'my fruit of choice is {fruit}')
else:
    print('No Fruit Here')
myfunc(fruit = 'apple', veggie = 'lettuce)

Returns: NameError: name 'fruit' is not defined

How would I format it correctly? And also, why isn't it working the way I am trying? Is it because of **kwargs?

Thank you for any help and explaining.

Answer 1

Close, it should be kwargs['fruit'] because kwargs is a dict containing all the function's parameters

def myfunc(**kwargs):
    print(kwargs)
    if 'fruit' in kwargs:
        print(f"my fruit of choice is {kwargs['fruit']}")
    else:
        print('No Fruit Here')
myfunc(fruit = 'apple', veggie = 'lettuce')
#{'fruit': 'apple', 'veggie': 'lettuce'}
#my fruit of choice is apple