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Python

Carlos Guzman
Carlos Guzman
1,300 Points
Posted by Carlos Guzman
Carlos Guzman
1,300 Points

Code Improvement - Stats Challenge

Looking to improve my code. It's definitely messy and this is the first problem that gave me a good challenge.

    my_dict = {'Jason Seifer': ['Ruby Foundations', 'Ruby on Rails Forms', 'Technology Foundations'], 
    'Kenneth Love': ['Python Basics', 'Python Collections', 'Python Stuff', 'Python other stuff']}

    def most_classes(dicts):
        max_count = 0
        teacher_name = None
        for key in dicts:
            if len(dicts[key]) > max_count:
                max_count = len(dicts[key])
                teacher_name = key
        return teacher_name

    print(most_classes(my_dict))


    def num_teachers(dicts):
        teacher_number = len(dicts.keys())
        return teacher_number

    print(num_teachers(my_dict))

    def stats(dicts):
        the_list = []
        for key in dicts:
            teacher_name = key
            num_classes = len(dicts[key])
            new_list = [teacher_name, num_classes]
            the_list.append(new_list)
        return the_list

    print(stats(my_dict))

    def courses(dicts):
        courses = []
        for key in dicts:
            courses += dicts[key]
        return courses

    print(courses(my_dict))

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,670 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,670 Points

These functions can be compacted into one-liners, using list comprehension, lambda, and reduce (which are probably concepts that are introduced later or in more advanced courses):

from functools import reduce

def stats(dicts):
    return [ [key, len(dicts[key])] for key in dicts ]

def most_classes(dicts):
    return reduce(lambda x,y: x if x[1] > y[1] else y, stats(dicts))[0]

def num_teachers(dicts):
    return len(dicts.keys())

def courses(dicts):
    return [ dicts[key] for key in dicts ]
Carlos Guzman
Carlos Guzman
1,300 Points
Carlos Guzman
Carlos Guzman
1,300 Points

Thanks! I was kind of hoping to compact the code without having to import any libraries. But this at least gives me a library to look into.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,670 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,670 Points

Reduce used to be a built in, in older Python versions. They moved it to functools in the newer versions.

All these concepts are introduced at some point on the Python track.