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Saul Goldman
1,539 Pointsplease help with teacher stats task :)
if you could attach a corrective code that would be amazing, also I know that what ive done assumes the dicts have an index which they do not but I hope you can see what ive tried to do and appreciate any help!
# 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(dicts):
return len(dicts)
def num_courses(dicts):
key_counter = -1
total = 0
for courses in dicts:
keys = len(dicts[key_counter + 1])
total = total + keys
key_counter = key_counter + 1
return total
1 Answer
Steven Parker
229,732 PointsYou're right dictionaries don't have a numeric index, but you can index them with one of their keys to get the associated value(s).
Also when you create a loop like "for courses in dicts:", that will iterate through the entire dictionary and "courses" will be set to the current key in each iteration.
Also remember that you're not counting the keys themselves (you did that in the last task), but the courses.
Hopefully, that'll get you back on track and you can take it from here.
Saul Goldman
1,539 PointsSaul Goldman
1,539 Pointshow do you index with keys as you suggested? and also I don't understand how I should alter the for loop?
Steven Parker
229,732 PointsSteven Parker
229,732 PointsIf "courses" is the key (that name might be a bit misleading since it's actually the teacher's name), then the list of courses would be "
dicts[courses]". That's how you can use the key as an "index" to the dictionary item.You can then change what the loop does to make it count the courses in each list and total them up.