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Curtis Scott
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Graduate 27,783 Pointsi have no idea why i am not passing this challenge it works in workshop fine
it works fine in worship but does pass here i have no idea why
# E.g. word_count("I do not like it Sam I Am") gets back a dictionary like:
# {'i': 2, 'do': 1, 'it': 1, 'sam': 1, 'like': 1, 'not': 1, 'am': 1}
# Lowercase the string to make it easier.
def word_count(a):
b = a.lower().split(" ")
c = {}
for word in b:
if word in c.keys():
c[word] = c[word]+1
else:
c[word] = 1
return c
2 Answers
Alex Koumparos
Python Development Techdegree Student 36,887 PointsHi Curtis,
You're making the (not unreasonable) assumption that you will only ever be passed strings that are separated by single spaces. The only clue you'll get from Treehouse that this is not the case is the error message says to split on "all whitespace", not just single spaces.
If there are other whitespace separators (e.g., multiple spaces or tabs) you will get the wrong output. You can test this yourself by passing your function strings like "hello world" and "hello\tworld" and seeing your output.
The remedy is to use the split() method without an argument. When passed no arguments, split uses its default which is to treat any amount of whitespace as a single space.
Hope that clears it up for you.
Cheers
Alex
Cameron Wood
4,840 PointsWhat does the console say?
Curtis Scott
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Graduate 27,783 PointsCurtis Scott
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Graduate 27,783 Pointsthank you for your help