Do not understand the Teacher Stats challenge AT ALL!

Question

Hello everybody. So I was able to finish this whole problem resourcing other forum posts, but I am still not understanding exactly what the functions are doing and what their outputs would be. Typically when I don't understand something, I make a new file and enter the code in the Workspaces to help me understand. BUT, when I run the code (without the print command which is the very last line of the code), the console prints back nothing.. And when I enter in the print (most_classes) command, the console returns the following : function most_classes at 0x7fc5b3ccaf28 (with a less than symbol at the beginning and a greater than symbol at the end).

Can somebody clarify this for me and explain what I need to fix so I can see exactly what the functions are going to print out?

teachers.py

# 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.

my_dict = {'Jason Seifer': ['Ruby Foundations', 'Ruby on Rails Forms', 'Technology Foundations'], 'Kenneth Love': ['Python Basics', 'Python Collections'] }

def most_classes(my_dict):
    count = 0
    teacher = ""
    for key in my_dict: 
        if(len(my_dict[key]) > count):
            count = len(my_dict[key])
            teacher = key   

    return teacher

print (most_classes)

Answer 1 · 2015-11-09T21:20:45Z

November 9, 2015 9:20pm

Hi Hunter,

In this script you have a function named most_classes. It takes one argument, a dictionary. When you call a function with an argument, you need to pass an argument into your call. e.g.

print most_classes(my_dict) # my_dict could be any dictionary that you have defined.

When using:

print (most_classes)

The console output is telling you that most_classes is a function, and it is currently stored in memory location 0x7fc5b3ccaf28.

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