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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Dictionaries Teacher Stats

Teacher Stats challenge 5:5. I don't know why it is giving me a "Didn't get the right output" error.

When I tried this exact code in my own work-space I get what looks to be what the question is asking for. But when I try it in here it doesn't work. My guess is that my formatting is wrong, but I'm not to sure on how it could be wrong. Any help or advice would be great! Thanks.

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(dictionary):
    count = 0
    for teachers in dictionary:
        count += 1
    return count

def num_courses(dict):
    course_list = []
    count = 0
    for value in dict.values():
        course_list.extend(value)
    count += len(course_list)
    return count

def courses(dict):
    course_list = []
    for value in dict.values():
        course_list.extend(value)
    return course_list

def most_courses(dict):
    maxNum = 0
    name = ''
    for teacher,course in dict.items():
        if len(course) > maxNum:
            name = teacher
            maxNum = len(course)
    return name

def stats(dict):
    teacher_list = []
    for teacher,course in dict.items():
        new_string = '{},{}'.format(teacher, int(len(course))).split(',')
        teacher_list.append(new_string)
    return teacher_list

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,007 Points

:warning: Be careful of testing challenges using the workspace.

If you misunderstand the instructions, it's likely you will also misinterpret the results.

The challenge instructions say your function should return " a list of lists", but you're returning a list of strings. So instead of creating a new_string, simply append a two-item list that has the teacher and the count of courses.