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

Posted by ngoc luong
ngoc luong
6,672 Points

Hi My submition for the question wordcount is worked on my local but when I submitted it always returns error

For the Challenge I created the word_count function as:

def word_count(in_string): wbw = in_string.lower().split(" ") rdict = {} for word in wbw: if word in rdict.keys(): rdict[word] +=1 else: rdict[word] = 1 return rdict

and the answer always wrong. I test on the workspace and it is worked as expected. Would you please help me to check

wordcount.py 
# 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.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points

You're very close here! Did you notice the error message: "Bummer: Hmm, didn't get the expected output. Be sure you're lowercasing the string and splitting on all whitespace!"?

To split on "all whitespace", just leave the argument of "split" empty. When you provide a space it changes the behavior so that it splits only on explicit spaces.

ngoc luong
ngoc luong
6,672 Points

Fixed. and this is worked as expected thank you so much