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Harris Handoko
3,932 Pointsword_count challenge task not working correctly: it works on workspace, but it didn't pass the checker
Adding the following to call the function:
string = "I do not like it Sam I Am"
print(word_count(string))
I got:
['i', 'do', 'not', 'like', 'it', 'sam', 'i', 'am']
{'i': 2, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'like': 1, 'it': 1, 'sam': 1, 'am': 1}
Please tell me where I went wrong?
# E.g. word_count("I do not like it Sam I Am") gets back a dictionary like:
# {'i': 2, 'do': 1, 'it': 1, 'sam': 1, 'like': 1, 'not': 1, 'am': 1}
# Lowercase the string to make it easier.
def word_count(string):
word_list = (string.lower()).split()
print(word_list)
word_count = {}
for word in word_list:
count = 1
try:
if word_count[word] >= 1:
word_count[word] = count + 1
except KeyError:
word_count[word] = count
return word_count
1 Answer
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Renato Guzman
51,425 PointsTry testing with: "I like people, I like pets and I like ice cream".
Notice that count is always 1 in every iteration. Also I recommend to change the name of your variable word_count
since it is the same as your method.
Hope it helps!
Harris Handoko
3,932 PointsHarris Handoko
3,932 PointsThanks! count = 1 was not correct, how could I forget the age-old += 1 ?!!! ;)