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Guy-Francis Kono
9,289 PointsThoroughly Confused
I don't know what to do. I tried to break it down into logical questions to guide me, but I'm still unable to return the key with the greatest number of values.
# 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(teachers):
max_count = 0
# teacher = []
for teaching in teachers:
# teacher.append(teaching)
# if teacher in teachers:
max_count = len(teachers[teaching])
return
most_classes(teachers)
1 Answer
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 PointsUse the items() function to loop over keys and values simultaneously:
for teacher, courses in teachers.items():
Before the loop have two variables to keep track of the longest list of courses and the teacher associated with that. You already have one of them, max_count.
Inside the loop use an if statement to see if the length of the list courses is greater than max_count. If it is set the values for max_count and max_teacher.
Once the loop is done return max_teacher.
Guy-Francis Kono
9,289 PointsGuy-Francis Kono
9,289 PointsThank you Kourosh.
I did as you directed, and it worked!
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 PointsKourosh Raeen
23,733 PointsGlad I could help! Happy coding!