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

return teacher with the most courses

I am trying to return the teacher with the most courses in task 4, but don't what i am doing 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(teacher):
    number = len(teacher)
    return number
def num_courses(teacher):
    courses = 0
    for course in teacher.values():
        courses += len(course)
    return courses 

def courses(teachers):
    course = []
    for teacher in teachers.values():
        course.extend(teacher)
    return course    

def most_courses(teacher):
    max_count = len(teachers.values())
    if teacher > max_count:
        name = max_count.update(teacher)
    return name    

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,608 Points

FYI, here are the main Python errors, but you won't want to just fix them:
ā€ƒ if teacher > max_count: :point_left: TypeError: '>' not supported between instances of 'dict' and 'int'
ā€ƒ ā€ƒ name = max_count.update(teacher):point_left: AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'update'

You'll probably want to revise your basic approach. You might use a loop to compare the size of each courses list in the dictionary to a saved maximum. Then, when the size is greater, save the new maximum and also the teacher's name that goes with it. Then when the loop finishes you can return the name of the last saved teacher.