Returning a single list

Question

I am trying to return a single list from a dictionary, but i can't get the code to pass task 3

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(teacher):
    numOfTeachers = len(teacher)
    return numOfTeachers

def num_courses(teachers):
    num_courses = 0
    for teacher in teachers.values():
        num_courses += len(teacher)
    return num_courses     

def courses(teachers):
    for course in courses.values():
    teacher = list.append(teachers)
    return teacher

Answer 1 · 2018-07-25T19:51:41Z

July 25, 2018 7:51pm

It looks like you have a good strategy, but a few implementation issues:

the incoming parameter is "teachers" but the loop uses "courses" (which is not defined)
statements inside a loop must be indented more than the loop itself
the word "list" is a language keyword so perhaps not a good choice for a variable name
you may need to initialize a new list before you add to it
the "append" function will create a nested list — you might want "extend" instead
inside the loop, you'll probably want to use the loop variable "course" instead of the whole dictionary
you won't need a "teacher" variable since you'll be returning the new list itself

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