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

Vitaliy Biriukov
Vitaliy Biriukov
14,172 Points

TypeError: 'collections.OrderedDict' object is not callable

Trying to pass a task with most_courses function

Got an error TypeError: 'collections.OrderedDict' object is not callable

however the code runs fine in the Workspaces

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(dic):
    counter = 0
    for teacher in dic:
        counter += 1
    return counter

def num_courses(dic):
    counter = 0
    for teacher in dic.values():
        counter += len(teacher)
    return counter            

def courses(dic):    
    listCourses = []
    for courses in dic.values():
        listCourses += courses
    return listCourses        

def most_courses(dic):
    max_courses = 0
    max_teacher = ''
    for teacher in dic:
        if max_courses < len(dic(teacher)):
            max_courses = len(dic(teacher))
            max_teacher = teacher
    return max_teacher            

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 Points

You are very close.

# You are using:
dic(teacher)
# instead of 
dic[teacher]

The first is seen as a call to the dic function, the second is a indexed lookup using the key teacher