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

Posted by aaronbuckles
aaronbuckles
3,291 Points

Says I'm getting an Error, but I get correct output.

When I print the code in my local command prompt I get out {'i': 2, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'like': 1, 'it': 1, 'sam': 1, 'am': 1}. This is the same as the example, except for order (but order for dictionaries isn't supposed matter), provided in the comments of the code. I don't understand why my code is incorrect.

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(sentence):
    sentence = sentence.lower()
    sentence = list(sentence.split(" "))
    output = {}
    for word in sentence:
        count = 0
        for w in sentence:
            if w == word:
                count += 1
        output[word] = count
    return output

1 Answer

aaronbuckles
aaronbuckles
3,291 Points

Thank you!