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Christina Hersey
701 PointsTask 1 no longer passes.
In Stage 3 Dictionaries, I pass Task 1 of the challenge but when I go do task 2, task 1 no longer passes. What gives?
# The dictionary will be something like:
# {'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(dictionary):
num_classes = 0
max_classes = 0
teacher = 0
for k in dictionary:
for v in dictionary.values():
num_classes = len(v)
if num_classes > max_classes:
max_classes = num_classes
teacher = k
return teacher
def num_teachers(dictionary):
number_teachers = 0
for k in dictionary:
number_teachers += 1
print number_teachers
num_teachers(dictionary)
6 Answers
Thomas Kirk
5,246 PointsHi,
Your code is printing the number of teachers instead of returning it. Also, I think you'll need to take out the:
num_teachers(dictionary)
line at the bottom of your code.
A simpler answer to that challenge might be:
def num_teachers(dictionary):
return len(dictionary.keys())
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherTask 1 isn't passing because you introduced an error in Task 2. You used the print statement instead of the print() function.
Christina Hersey
701 PointsOk this explains it. I did finally get it to work. Thanks for your answers; I'm so surprised to get an answer from the instructor! So, question from a fellow Portlander and PyLady: I do my tasks in Notepad++ as I work through them and for some reason, return won't work for me...it only works if I use print, which is how that error got in there. I know I have to change every print statement to return when I switch to Treehouse, and I know that functions should always return something, so why doesn't it work in Notepad++/Python 2.7/windows powershell?
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherHow does return not work? Does it throw an error?
Christina Hersey
701 PointsIt doesn't throw an error but nothing happens. It just gives me a new prompt and doesn't return anything from the program. When I switch all the returns to print statements, it works and then when I switch to Treehouse, I need to change them all back to returns. Sometimes I forget and it takes me a few tries.
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherSo you're just not getting any feedback? You shouldn't see return values unless you print them or assign them to a variable and then print that variable.
Try this:
def test():
return "Hi!"
print(test())
Christina Hersey
701 PointsOh, that works! I wonder why I've never encountered that before? I thought that to call a function, you just would type:
test()
Well, thank you. This is helpful. And thanks for doing this class. The other PDX PyLadies say you are pretty awesome. I hope to meet in person someday if I can stick with this.
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacherreturn sends a value back out of a function into whatever called it. Maybe it's a variable, maybe it's another function. If it's nothing, the value just goes away and you'll never see it. That's why you weren't seeing the values before. Just call your functions inside of a print and you should see the values.
We're having a meetup at the Treehouse office on 1/21 if you want to attend. It's over Vim.
Christina Hersey
701 PointsI think I'd like to go to that! Where can I get the details?
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherThe details are here.