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Python Python Collections (Retired) Dictionaries Teacher Stats

Oguz Dumanoglu
Oguz Dumanoglu
5,169 Points

I did not understand where i am doing a mistake in this challenge

I did not understand but probably my mistake is related with max finding logic.

teachers.py
# The dictionary will be something like:
# {'Jason Seifer': ['Ruby Foundations', 'Ruby on Rails Forms', 'Technology Foundations'],
#  'Kenneth Love': ['Python Basics', 'Python Collections']}
#
# Often, it's a good idea to hold onto a max_count variable.
# Update it when you find a teacher with more classes than
# the current count. Better hold onto the teacher name somewhere
# too!
#
# Your code goes below here.

def most_classes(teachers):
    max_count = 0
    for teacher, courses in teachers.items():
        if max_count < len(courses):
            max_count = len(courses)
    return teacher

1 Answer

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

Hi Oguz - Your code always returns the last teacher as the one with most classes. You need to keep track of the teacher with most classes as well. You can do something very similar to using max_count. Create a string variable, say max_teacher, before the loop and initialize it to an empty string. Then set to the teacher in the if statement and finally return it.

Oguz Dumanoglu
Oguz Dumanoglu
5,169 Points

Hey Kourosh, thank you very much, it worked! :)

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

Awesome! Glad I could help!