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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Dictionaries Word Count

Posted by eliamani seushi
eliamani seushi
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Alright, this one might be a bit challenging but you've been doing great so far, so I'm sure you can manage it.

on my local machine it works ,please check my code to see where i am wrong

wordcount.py 
def word_count(words):
        sentence = words.lower()
        listOfStr1 = sentence.split(" ")
        listOfStr2 = listOfStr1[:]
        listofcnt=[]

        for i in listOfStr1:
            cnt=0
            for x in listOfStr2:
                if i == x:
                    cnt = cnt + 1

            listofcnt.append(cnt)
            zipbObj = zip(listOfStr1, listofcnt)
            dictOfWords = dict(zipbObj)


        return dictOfWords



output = word_count("I do not like it Sam I Am")
print(output)

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there, eliamani seushi ! You're doing terrific! The problem here is partially due to your data set that you're checking. It will pass with the test data, but doesn't pass in all cases. This is because the challenge asks you to split on all whitespace. The only whitespace your test data contains is spaces. But newline characters and tabs are also whitespace and clearly the text Treehouse is testing contains one or both of those.

Where you have:

# this splits on spaces only
.split(" ")

That should be:

# this splits on ALL whitespace
.split()

Simply removing the " " from the split method will tell it to split on all whitespace instead of only spaces.

Hope this helps! :sparkles: