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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Dictionaries Word Count

Posted by breathly
breathly
2,949 Points

Word_count python. Why is this solution wrong?

Why isn't this correct. When I test it in pycharm I can feed it everything and it works.

wordcount.py 
def word_count(s):
    s = s.lower()
    s = s.split(" ")
    d = {}
    for one in s:
        d.update({one: 1})

    for one in s:
        counter = 0
        for two in s:
            if one == two:
                counter += 1
        d.update({one: counter})

    return d

3 Answers

Dave StSomeWhere
Dave StSomeWhere
19,870 Points
Dave StSomeWhere
Dave StSomeWhere
19,870 Points

When I test it with the following:

print(word_count('What do   You   Get from  this   Example  Sam  I  am I  am a ham'))

The incorrect output is below:

{'what': 1, 'do': 1, '': 11, 'you': 1, 'get': 1, 'from': 1, 'this': 1, 'example': 1, 'sam': 1, 'i': 2, 'am': 2, 'a': 1, 'ham': 1}

Don't you want it to produce the following:

{'what': 1, 'do': 1, 'you': 1, 'get': 1, 'from': 1, 'this': 1, 'example': 1, 'sam': 1, 'i': 2, 'am': 2, 'a': 1, 'ham': 1}
breathly
breathly
2,949 Points
breathly
breathly
2,949 Points

Alright but even when I fix this with del d[''] it doesn't let me pass.

Dave StSomeWhere
Dave StSomeWhere
19,870 Points
Dave StSomeWhere
Dave StSomeWhere
19,870 Points

OK, is doing a del d[''] really the way to fix this?

If you fix your split() it will pass.

breathly
breathly
2,949 Points
breathly
breathly
2,949 Points

This worked. Thank you =) The important part was that

split(" ")

only splits one whitespace where as

split()

will split on multiple whitespaces!