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

Jordan Hoover
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Create Dictionary Answer Not Correct

Not sure why the code below isn't working. Again, this is running correctly on my machine. Please help!

wordcount.py 
# 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(str):
    sentence = str.split(' ')
    dic = {}

    for word in sentence:
        dic[word.lower()] = sentence.count(word)

    return dic

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
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Chris Freeman
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Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
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So close! split on whitespace (no argument) instead of a literal SPACE.

Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

It's these subtle differences between languages that take can catch you off guard. For Python the str.split() method defaults to splitting on whitespace and returns a list.

Another convention in Python is to get a list of all characters in a string use list(string).

Venkat SOMALARAJU
Venkat SOMALARAJU
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Venkat SOMALARAJU
Venkat SOMALARAJU
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This is tricky. Thanks for your comments. I managed to get similar output (content is same), but the items were in different order.

After following your suggestions, the result matches.