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Python Python Collections (Retired) Dictionaries Teacher Stats

Teacher Stats.. 3 / 4. No Longer Passing Task 1?

Okay. So I made a solid effort at not browsing the community for this one, but I do see alot of answers that would work. My issue is that I don't want to rewrite the code to be another person's solution, but rather force this one to work.

I've seen that most of the community did the num_teachers function differently than me. Is it possible that that's causing my code to fail? When I revert to Task 1, it passes with no issues, so I'm assuming that something I wrote in the stats function is causing my most_classes function to fail.

That said, I can't figure out what.

Please help!

teachers.py
# The dictionary will be something like:
# {'Jason Seifer': ['Ruby Foundations', 'Ruby on Rails Forms', 'Technology Foundations'],
#  'Kenneth Love': ['Python Basics', 'Python Collections']}
#
# Often, it's a good idea to hold onto a max_count variable.
# Update it when you find a teacher with more classes than
# the current count. Better hold onto the teacher name somewhere
# too!
#
# Your code goes below here.


def most_classes(dictionary):

    max_count = 0

    most_class = ""

    for teacher in dictionary:
        if len(dictionary[teacher]) > max_count:
            max_count = len(dictionary[teacher])
            most_class = teacher
    return most_class

def num_teachers(dictionary):   
    teach_num = len(dictionary.keys())

    return teach_num

def stats(dictionary):

    new_list = []

    for teacher in dictionary:
        new_string = [teacher, len([dictionary[teacher])]
        new_list.append(new_string)
    return new_list

1 Answer

Scratch that!

Fixed my syntax, had one too many brackets in my Stats Function!

Thanks anyway!

:D