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Ariful Islam
1,781 PointsGetting result as expected in my local shell but treehouse says wrong
Getting result as expected in my local shell but treehouse says wrong. Please check the attached file.
# E.g. word_count("I do not like it Sam I Am") gets back a dictionary like:
# {'i': 2, 'do': 1, 'it': 1, 'sam': 1, 'like': 1, 'not': 1, 'am': 1}
# Lowercase the string to make it easier.
def word_count(arg):
words = arg.split(" ")
dic = {}
for word in words:
if word.lower() in dic:
continue
dic[word.lower()] = words.count(word)
return dic
1 Answer
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 PointsHi Ariful,
You've pretty much have it perfect, except for one small thing. If you think about how someone might input the argument... you can't be sure that it will be a simple string separated by spaces. The argument passed in could contain a list separated with hard-returns or something spaced out with tabs. When you did it in the shell, it was just a string with spaces (I'm guessing), so the output would be what you want.
Instead of splitting on just spaces, you should be splitting on all whitespace. If you just change that up, the challenge should pass. Remember to split on all whitespace, you don't pass any argument into the split() method.
Nice work!! :)
Ariful Islam
1,781 PointsAriful Islam
1,781 PointsThank you so much @Jason.