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

stephenmelendy
stephenmelendy
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Posted by stephenmelendy
stephenmelendy
3,578 Points

Splitting only on spaces?

My code works as expected in workspaces. I have no idea why I am getting an error saying "make sure you are not splitting only on spaces". What does that mean? What else should I be splitting on? Am I supposed to remove punctuation or something?That is not specified in the challenge.

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(string):
    string.lower()
    a = string.split()
    d = dict()
    for item in a:
        d.update({item:a.count(item)})

    return d

1 Answer

stephenmelendy
stephenmelendy
3,578 Points
stephenmelendy
stephenmelendy
3,578 Points

My issue was that when I did the string.lower(), it was only applying it to that single line. Changing that line to string = string.lower() fixed the issue.