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

Daniel Fragoso
Daniel Fragoso
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Posted by Daniel Fragoso
Daniel Fragoso
5,333 Points

[SOLVED] Difficulties on the word count exercise in the dictionaries section of Python Collections.

I'm getting an error message telling me to make sure I'm splitting on all whitespace, which makes me wonder if I need to split on '\n' as well as ' '. If so, I'm not sure how to do that. Otherwise, my code seems to be getting the job done on tests I've done on my computer, but I'm still getting the error message.

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(s):
    l=s.lower().split('\n')
    d={}
    for entry in l:
        try:
            d[entry]+=1
        except KeyError:
            d[entry]=1
    return d
Daniel Fragoso
Daniel Fragoso
5,333 Points
Daniel Fragoso
Daniel Fragoso
5,333 Points

Sorry about that random e in there btw, I'm not sure how it got there!

Daniel Fragoso
Daniel Fragoso
5,333 Points
Daniel Fragoso
Daniel Fragoso
5,333 Points

Nevermind, I figured it out! Turns out you do need to split on all whitespace, and you do that by leaving the argument on the .split method empty.