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

Not recognizing my function at all. It says "Bummer: Couldn't find `most_courses`"

I'll work on it in workspaces or Anaconda tomorrow but I am curious if it is some bug or if I am missing something blatant due to my persistent lack of sleep.

Thanks in advance!

Matthew

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(treehouse_teachers):
    return len(treehouse_teachers)

def num_courses(treehouse_teachers):
    return sum(len(v) for v in treehouse_teachers.values())

def courses(treehouse_teachers):
    course_list = []
    for value in treehouse_teachers.values():
        course_list += value
    return course_list

def most_courses(treehouse_teachers):
    highest_num = 0
    teacher_most_classes = ""
    for key, value in treehouse_teachers.items():
        if len(value) > highest_num:
            highest_num = len(value)
            teacher_most_classes = key
    return tearcher_most_classes

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there, Matthew Schwer ! You're actually doing fantastic! The reason you're getting this rather cryptic answer is that you're returning a value that isn't defined. I know that sounds odd because it looks like it is defined, right? Take another look.

You wrote:

return tearcher_most_classes

But you meant to write:

return teacher_most_classes

Note the spelling difference between "teacher" and "tearcher". Just a typo! When I correct the typo (the extraneous "r"), your code passes with flying colors!

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

silly me and my dyslexia! Thank you for taking the time to respond!