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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Dictionaries Word Count

Don Toresco
Don Toresco
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Posted by Don Toresco
Don Toresco
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Not sure why this isn't working

This works for every value I have entered in workspaces, but for some reason I keep getting the bummer message on the challenge. Any thoughts?

wordcount.py 
# 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(value):

    listy = value.split(' ')
    listy = [words.lower() for words in listy[:]]
    vally = [ listy.count(x) for x in listy[:]]
    siccy = dict(zip(listy[:], vally[:]))


    return(siccy)

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james south
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james south
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james south
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the error tells you to split on all whitespace, but you are only splitting on space. there are other whitespace characters like tab. use split with no arguments to also split on those other characters.