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

Alice Ng
Alice Ng
1,560 Points

Whats wrong with this code? Please help~

The task want a function called most_courses, it takes a dict argument and return the name of the teacher with the most courses. I have tried mine on workspace and it seems to work fine. but i couldnt pass this test.

The dictionary will look something like:

{'Andrew Chalkley': ['jQuery Basics', 'Node.js Basics'],

'Kenneth Love': ['Python Basics', 'Python Collections']}

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(dicts):
    counter = 0
    for key in dicts.keys():
        counter +=1
    return counter

def num_courses(dicts):
    counter = 0
    for value in dicts.values():
        counter+= int(len(value))
    return counter

def courses(dicts):
    course_list = []
    for values in dicts.values():
        for course in values[:]:
            course_list.extend([course])
    return course_list

def most_courses(dicts):
    max_count = 0
    max_teacher = ''
    for teacher in dicts.keys():
        for course in teacher:
            if int(len(course))>max_count:
                max_count = int(len(course))
                max_teacher = teacher
    return max_teacher

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points

You are very close. In the for loop, teacher is a string (the dictionary key), so there is no "course in teacher". Instead, assign course directly from a dict lookup: course = dicts[teacher] and remove the inner for loop.

Post back if you need more help. Good Luck!!

Alice Ng
Alice Ng
1,560 Points

thanks got it ahah