3. form_letter This function takes a list of dictionaries, where each dictionary has an entry of key "name" and entry of key "date". It returns a list of strings, where each output string has replaced the name and the date into the following  template. Use the format method on strings -- see Lecture 8! The template should be exactly like this -- just copy-paste this into your code. TEMPLATE = """Dear {name}, Your appointment is at {time}. Thanks very much. -- bimmy""" It can be either local to your function, or global in your Python file. Your choice! Sample calls should look like this. >>> form_letter([{"name":"Alex", "time":"three o'clock"},{"name":"Laura", "time":"the stroke of midnight"}]) ["Dear Alex,\nYour appointment is at three o'clock.\nThanks very much.\n-- bimmy", 'Dear Laura,\nYour appointment is at the stroke of midnight.\nThanks very much.\n-- bimmy']

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3. form_letter

This function takes a list of dictionaries, where each dictionary has an entry of key "name" and entry of key "date". It returns a list of strings, where each output string has replaced the name and the date into the following  template. Use the format method on strings -- see Lecture 8!

The template should be exactly like this -- just copy-paste this into your code.

TEMPLATE = """Dear {name},
Your appointment is at {time}.
Thanks very much.
-- bimmy"""

It can be either local to your function, or global in your Python file. Your choice!

Sample calls should look like this.

>>> form_letter([{"name":"Alex", "time":"three o'clock"},{"name":"Laura", "time":"the stroke of midnight"}])
["Dear Alex,\nYour appointment is at three o'clock.\nThanks very much.\n-- bimmy", 'Dear Laura,\nYour appointment is at the stroke of midnight.\nThanks very much.\n-- bimmy']

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