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

I'm getting a Type Error on Challenge Task 1 of 5

This is the error that I am getting: TypeError: num_teachers() takes 0 positional arguments but 1 was given

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(**numberofTeachers):
    for teachers in numberofTeachers.key():
        return numberofTeachers.count(key)

2 Answers

Easy one liners to solve it will be these reply if you need more explanation

num_teachers = lambda arg: len(arg.keys())
num_courses = lambda arg: sum([len(c) for c in arg.values()])
courses = lambda arg: [c for s in arg.values() for c in s]
most_courses = lambda arg: [t for t, c in sorted(arg.items(), key=lambda a: len(a[1]), reverse=True)][0]
stats = lambda arg: [[t, len(c)] for t, c in arg.items()]
jonlunsford
jonlunsford
15,480 Points

Your function is expecting keyword arguments such as:

num_teachers(name='Ken', classes=['Python', 'Collections'])

not positional arguments such as:

num_teachers(dict)

I can't tell from your code, but my guess is you are trying to pass in a dictionary which is a positional argument since it is not unpacked by Python. Here's how I would handle the assignment:

def num_courses(teachers):
for key in teachers:
courses = len(teachers[key])
print("{} teaches {} courses.".format(key, courses))

then call the function using the teachers dictionary:

data = {'Andrew Chalkley': ['jQuery Basics', 'Node.js Basics'], 'Kenneth Love': ['Python Basics', 'Python Collections']}
num_courses(data)

the output would look like the following:

Kenneth Love teaches 2 courses.
Andrew Chalkley teaches 2 courses.

This is assuming you are counting classes for each teacher. From this you should be able to revise your code for counting the number of teachers.