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Barry Snowe
51,277 PointsDictionaries challenge: getting "Oops! It looks like Task 1 is no longer passing." Why is this?
I don't understand this error message. It doesn't tell me why the next portion of code I put in isn't working, or if that's even the case. It just says that the earlier code went from passing to no longer passing. What went wrong?
# The dictionary will be something like:
# {'Jason Seifer': ['Ruby Foundations', 'Ruby on Rails Forms', 'Technology Foundations'],
# 'Kenneth Love': ['Python Basics', 'Python Collections']}
#
# Often, it's a good idea to hold onto a max_count variable.
# Update it when you find a teacher with more classes than
# the current count. Better hold onto the teacher name somewhere
# too!
#
# Your code goes below here.
def most_classes(my_dict):
winner = ""
counter = 0
for key in my_dict:
for value in my_dict.values():
if len(value) > counter:
counter = len(value)
winner = key
return winner
def num_teachers(my_dict):
teacher_count = 0
for key in my_dict:
teacher_count += 1
return teacher_count
2 Answers
Martin Cornejo Saavedra
18,132 PointsSomehow the variable 'key' is being occupied, I changed it to 'key2' and it worked. In a real IDE this wouldn't matter, but the code corrector being used here may get confused.
def num_teachers(my_dict):
teacher_count = 0
for key2 in my_dict:
teacher_count += 1
return teacher_count
Barry Snowe
51,277 PointsI figured out the problem. The first part of the challenge passing in the first place was a fluke. I had to rewrite most_classes to be a little better and the rest sorted itself out.
Thanks!