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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Dictionaries Teacher Stats

Ronald Tse
Ronald Tse
5,798 Points

I can run it and get the correct ans...

for the last part, I have tried to run it I get the correct ans. But it said I'm wrong...

teachers.py
# The dictionary will look something like:
# {'Andrew Chalkley': ['jQuery Basics', 'Node.js Basics'],
#  'Kenneth Love': ['Python Basics', 'Python Collections']}
#
# Each key will be a Teacher and the value will be a list of courses.
#
# Your code goes below here.

def num_teachers(argument):
    teacher_list = []
    for teacher in argument:
        teacher_list.append(teacher)
    return len(teacher_list)

def num_courses(argument):
    course_list = []
    for course in argument.values():
        course_list += course
    return len(course_list)

def courses(argument):
    course_list2 = []
    for course in argument.values():
        course_list2 += course
    return course_list2

def most_courses(argument):
    max_course = 0
    for teacher in argument.keys():
        if len(argument[teacher]) > max_course:
            max_course = len(argument[teacher])
    return teacher

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

:point_right: You're very close, but missing one thing.

When you encounter a new maximum and save the number of courses for later comparisons, you should also save the teacher that number goes with. Then, after the loop finishes, return that saved teacher instead of just the last one tested in the loop.

Perhaps it appeared to work because you tested it with a list where the last teacher also happened to be the one with the most courses. Note that example data contained in challenge comments will almost never be the actual data used for testing.