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3,405 PointsHi please any ideas for this challenge:
help is much appreciated
# 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(teachers):
G = []
max_count = 0
for k in teachers.keys():
max_count = len(teachers[k])
G.append(max_count)
for i in teachers.keys():
if len(teachers[i]) == max(G):
return i
def num_teachers(teachers):
L = []
for t in teachers.keys():
L.append(t)
return len(L)
def stats(teachers):
L = []
for i in teachers.items():
L.append(list(i))
return L
5 Answers
James Simshaw
28,738 PointsMy preference when doing this was to loop over each key in the dictionary using the loop
for key in dictionary:
#do something here
Since the key in this case is the name of the teacher. From there you can construct the list to add and add it inside the loop.
James Simshaw
28,738 PointsHello,
What this Challenge is asking you to create the function stats which takes in a dictionary, and then returns a list where each element in the list is a list in the format of [name, num_of_courses]
Rabih Atallah
3,405 Pointsplease, any hints on how to start the script. The method: k,v in items.dict(): is returning a tuple
Rabih Atallah
3,405 PointsI tried the loop but its hard ti build a list with 2 items (key, value) with each step. any hints pleas?
James Simshaw
28,738 PointsYou can add a list as an element of a list by doing:
list.append([item1, item2, item3, ... , itemX])
where list is the name of your list of lists and the items are the items you want to add to the list element
Rabih Atallah
3,405 PointsThank you James! it worked, that was helpful