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Python

Posted by Max Gollinger
Max Gollinger
7,533 Points

In workspaces my code has the right output but in the code challenge it says "didnt get the expected output" ...

# 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.

string = "I do not like it Sam I Am"

def word_count(string):

    my_dict = {}

    string = string.lower().split(" ")

    for each in string:

        if each in my_dict.keys():

            my_dict[each] = my_dict[each] + 1

        else:

            my_dict[each] = 1

    return my_dict

If i try this in workspaces, the output is like the example above... i honestly have no idea where i got it wrong

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points

The challenge may (will!) test your program using data other than the example. You didn't link to the challenge, but if I remember it may have said something about splitting on any whitespace. But I see you passed a space as an argument to "split" which causes it to split (only) on individual spaces.

Try leaving the argument to "split" empty and see if that helps.

If that's not it, please provide a link to the challenge page.

Max Gollinger
Max Gollinger
7,533 Points

Thank you! That was it :)