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Posted by James Weis
James Weis
19,328 Points

Code Challenge Word Count will not pass with correct answer from IDE.

https://teamtreehouse.com/library/python-collections-2/dictionaries/word-count

Here is my solution:

def word_count(string): dict_string = {} list_string = string.lower().split(' ') for i in list_string: count = list_string.count(i) dict_string[i] = count return dict_string

This works as the code challenges explain but swill not pass! Very frustrating. Please point out anything I have done wrong. This works with any string I throw at it in my IDE.

2 Answers

Christopher Shaw
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Christopher Shaw
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 58,248 Points
Christopher Shaw
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Christopher Shaw
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 58,248 Points

Split with no arguments will split on white spaces, 1 or more. Your split(' ') limits to splitting on single white spaces.

def word_count(string): 
    dict_string = {} 
    list_string = string.lower().split() 
    for i in list_string: 
        count = list_string.count(i) 
        dict_string[i] = count 
    return dict_string
James Weis
James Weis
19,328 Points
James Weis
James Weis
19,328 Points

Thank you!