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

Haitao Huang
Haitao Huang
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Can anyone give me a hint on this challenge?

Wow, I just can't stump you! OK, two more to go. I think this one's my favorite, though. Create a function named most_courses that takes our good ol' teacher dictionary. most_courses should return the name of the teacher with the most courses. You might need to hold onto some sort of max count variable.

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(teachers):
    count = 0
    for teacher in teachers:
        count += 1 
    return count

def num_courses(argument):
    count = 0
    for val in argument.values():
        count = count + len(val)
    return count

def courses(argument):
    courses = []
    for val in argument.values():
        courses += val
    return courses

1 Answer

Hey Haitao,

I just replied to a post about this and think it will be helpful for a way to move forward. See this link:

https://teamtreehouse.com/community/need-a-helping-handshove-on-step-45-of-teacherspy

Hope this helps!