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Python

Posted by Welby Obeng
Welby Obeng
20,340 Points

why im I getting this error

Please look at me code below...I'm getting..do you know why?

File "stats.py", line 6
return classes
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax 

def stats(dicts):
  classes = []
  for dic in dicts:
    classes.append(dic)
    classes.append(len(dicts[dic])
  return classes

1 Answer

Andreas cormack
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Andreas cormack
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,011 Points

Hi you were missing a closing parenthesis on line 5.

def stats(dicts):
  classes = []
  for dic in dicts:
    classes.append(dic)
    classes.append(len(dicts[dic]))
  return classes