Print Key Error.

Question

My code doesn't print the teacher name (key), and return a SyntaxError also.

Any idea how can I fix this?

teachers.py

# 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):
  counter=0
  for key, value in teacher.items():
    counter2=len(value)
    if counter2 < counter:
        counter = counter2
    else:
        print key

Answer 1 · 2015-07-21T09:31:17Z

July 21, 2015 9:31am

hie evandro. Firstly you should return hat teacher's name not print it. let me try and take you through how I understood the challenge. You did great in defining the function, initializing counter, checking for keys and values and setting counter two. Now for your if statement, we want the teacher with most classes so our counter two should always be higher than counter. NOTE I also included the variable name with an empty string in it, such that for that key that has most values I will add it to my variable. Finally return the variable name which contains the key that we are looking for .

def most_classes(teachers):

counter = 0

name = ''

for key, value in teachers.items():

    counter2 = len(value)

    if counter2 > counter:

        name = key

        counter = counter2

return name

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