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

How to solve this task? (teachers and courses - max count)

Any explanation?

teachers.py
# The dictionary will look something like:
# {'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(teachers):
    teachers_count = len(teachers)
    return teachers_count

def num_courses(teachers):
    total = 0
    for value in teachers.values():
      total += len(value)
    return total

def courses(teachers):
    course = []
    for value in teachers.values():
        course += value
    return course

def most_courses(d1):

1 Answer

Hi mateoniksic3, I went with this after fighting with some errors in the exercise shell claiming it could not find mit function :D

I hope that helps you out. If you have any questions on this, just leave a comment.

Cheers, urs

def most_courses(dict_teachers):
    max_c = 0
    teacher_most_courses = str()

    for t, c in dict_teachers.items():
        if len(c) > max_c:
            max_c = len(c)
            teacher_most_courses = t
    return teacher_most_courses