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Python Python Collections (Retired) Dictionaries Word Count

Posted by Mduduzi Frederick Dube
Mduduzi Frederick Dube
8,886 Points

Where is 'word count'?, how am I not defining the function correctly such that it fails to be read as a funtion.

Where am I missing it?

word_count.py 
def word_count(string):
    value = string.lower().split(' ')
    for word in value:
        my_dict[word] = value.count(word)
    return my_dict

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,670 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,670 Points

:point_right: It looks like you forgot to initialize my_dict before assigning to it.

Initialization to an empty set will identify it as a dictionary and not an array.

Mduduzi Frederick Dube
Mduduzi Frederick Dube
8,886 Points

Thanks a lot.

Brian Jensen
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You are so very close!

def word_count(string):
    my_dict = {}
    value = string.lower().split(' ')
    for word in value:
        my_dict[word] = value.count(word)
    return my_dict