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

Milos Radosavljevic
Milos Radosavljevic
9,081 Points
Posted by Milos Radosavljevic
Milos Radosavljevic
9,081 Points

hello friends Im stuck here, can someone help me?

This challenge has several steps so take your time, read the instructions carefully, and feel free to experiment in Workspaces or on your own computer. For this first task, create a function named num_teachers that takes a single argument, which will be a dictionary of Treehouse teachers and their courses. The num_teachers function should return an integer for how many teachers are in the dict.

teachers.py 
# The dictionary will look something like:
 dicts =  {'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(dicts):
    num_of_teachers = 0
    for teacher_name in dicts.keys():
        if len(dicts[techer_name]) > num_of_teachers:
            num_of_teachers = len(dicts[teacher_name])
    return num_of_teachers
Dave Laffan
Dave Laffan
4,604 Points
Dave Laffan
Dave Laffan
4,604 Points

Hi o/

Without wanting to give too much away, you're probably overthinking it. All you need to do is return the length of the dict, no iteration is required.