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

Christopher Shanor
PLUS
Christopher Shanor
Courses Plus Student 2,537 Points

teachers.py challenge task 3 of 5. Passes the console, but not the challenge. Any ideas?

In the last method, courses, the extend method constructs a new list of the classes. How come it will not pass?

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.
teachers = {"Kenneth Love" : ["Python Basics", "Python Collections"], "Andrew Chalkey": ["JQuery Basics", "Node.js Basics"]}

def num_teachers(teachers):
    return len(teachers)

def num_courses(teachers):
    total = 0
    for i in teachers:
        total += len(teachers[i])
    return total

def courses(teachers):
    courses1 = teachers.get("Kenneth Love")
    courses2 = teachers.get("Andrew Chalkey")
    courses1.extend(courses2)
    return courses1

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

Don't rely on the sample data shown in the comments.

The actual data used to test your code will be different, and likely more extensive, than the short example given in the comments.

Write your function so that it does not rely on knowing how many teachers will be in the passed-in dictionary, or what their names will be.