python dict challenge 1 of 5

Question

im stuck
```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({'Andrew Chalkley': ['jQuery Basics', 'Node.js Basics'],
 'Kenneth Love': ['Python Basics', 'Python Collections']}):
    return(
```

Steven Parker · Answer

For starters, you can't define a function using literal parameters.
Also, the challenge said your function "takes a single argument, which will be a dictionary".  So you'll need a name for the parameter (just one) that will represent a dictionary when the function is called.
But if you don't know where to go from there, you might want to review the video on Dictionary Iteration (https://teamtreehouse.com/library/dictionary-iteration) which has some examples of things you will want to do in this function.

james south · Answer

the parameter for your function is just an internal variable, not the actual dictionary. so something like dict or my_dict for example. it is the internal representation of the dictionary that will be passed in as the argument when your function is called. in this first task you just need to count and return the number of keys in the dictionary that is passed in.

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python dict challenge 1 of 5

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james south

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Steven Parker

Steven Parker

For starters, you can't define a function using literal parameters.