Return a list of lists?

Question

how do i go about this one good people i am a bit rusty

teachers.py

teacher_dict = {'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(teacher_dict):
  return "Jason Seifer"
def num_teachers(teacher_dict):
  max_count = 0
  max_count = len(teacher_dict)
  return max_count
def stats(teacher_dict):

Answer 1 · 2015-04-28T02:07:44Z

April 28, 2015 2:07am

Hello Wolverine.

I presume you are stuck at challenge 3/4; but before having a look at it, I noticed one thing in your code for the previous challenges and in particular the most_classes function definition: it should be the compiler's job to find which teacher has the most courses and not you like in your code. So it has to return a string but not one that is hard-coded by you.

Regarding task 3/4 I can try to point you in the right direction: there is a handy method in python which is the items() method: it unpacks all the values of the dictionary (2 in our case) and I think it is a good starting point for you in this situation (I have used it myself too).

Something like this:

for teacher, course in dictionary.items():

This would then give you the chance to have both teacher and courses from the dictionary.

Let me know if clear

;)

Vittorio

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Return a list of lists?

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