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

wan muhammad najmie wan sabri
wan muhammad najmie wan sabri
1,943 Points

task 4 of teachers stats

i tried this in workspace and it shows the result that i want. but when i run it in task 4, it keeps saying task 3 is no longer true or something like that. iā€™m pretty sure my code is correct though but kaybe i missed something lol help

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(dicti):
    return len(dicti.keys())

def num_courses(dicti):
    total = 0
    for item in dicti.values():
        total += len(item)
    return total

def courses(dicti):
    course = []
    for item in dicti.values():
        for item2 in item:
            course.append(item2)
    return course

def courses(dicti):
    teacher = ["test"]
    max = 0
    for item in dicti:
        if len(dicti[item]) > max:
            max = len(dicti[item])
            teacher.pop()
            teacher.append(dicti)
    return teacher

2 Answers

why have you defined "courses" twice?

wan muhammad najmie wan sabri
wan muhammad najmie wan sabri
1,943 Points

oh my bad. got mixed up with the last task.

anyway, i changed the function name, but it says didnt get the correct teacher. any ideas?

you are returning an Array. The challenge does not ask for you to return an array :)