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

any tips on this chalenge?

I'm stuck on the stats function. How do i go about doing this?

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(teacher):
    teacher_count = 0
    for key in teacher.keys():
        teacher_count += 1
    return teacher_count

def num_courses(teacher):
    course_count = 0
    for value in teacher.values():
        for each in value:
            course_count += 1
    return course_count

def courses(teacher):
    courses = []
    for value in teacher.values():
        courses += value
    return courses

def most_courses(teacher_dict):
    max_count = 0
    teacher = None
    for key,val in teacher_dict.items():
        if len(val)> max_count:
            teacher = key
        max_count = len(val)
    return teacher

def stats(teacher):
    teacher_list = []
    inner_list = []
    for key,val in teacher.items():
        inner_list += [key, val]
        teacher_list = teachet_list.append(inner_list)
    return teacher_list

2 Answers

suliman alkous
PLUS
suliman alkous
Courses Plus Student 5,139 Points

ok, in teacher dictionary the key is teacher name and the value is courses so they want the result it will be teacher_name and number of courses so what lan do is half current but except number of courses that it should be count for list (val) this first thing, the second one is "+=" you don't need to use += for inner_item because this mean append to inner_item variable and you don't need to append its a temporary just to hold data. and last thing is this line

teacher_list = teachet_list.append(inner_list)

you don't have to save teacher_list to itself

suliman alkous
PLUS
suliman alkous
Courses Plus Student 5,139 Points

this is current answer

def stats(teacher):
    teacher_list = []
    inner_list = []
    for key,val in teacher.items():
        inner_list = [key, len(val)]
        teacher_list.append(inner_list)
    return teacher_list
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
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