What is the expected return of the most_classes challenge?

Question

It seems like previous questions had to do with returning a list of teachers and the number of classes taught by each. That doesn't seem to be the goal now. The challenge now says: "Create a function named most_classes that takes a dictionary of teachers and returns the teacher with the most classes."

So, I couldn't find a question/answer to help me. I am getting the "Bummer! Where's most_classes()?"

teachers.py

# 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(teacher_dict):
  max_count = 0
  for key in teacher_dict:
    class_count = len(teacher_dict[value])
    if class_count > max_count:
      max_count = class_count
      max_teacher = teacher_dict[key]
  return max_teacher

Answer 1 · 2015-08-16T23:57:38Z

August 16, 2015 11:57pm

When doing this kind of tasks, they actually ask you to program more than one functions. Don't delete the older functions in case you did.

Here's a solution in task 2:

def num_teachers(my_dict):
    return(len(my_dict))

def most_classes(my_dict):
    max_count  = 0
    for key in my_dict:
        if len(my_dict[key]) > max_count:
            max_count = len(my_dict[key])
            answer = key
    return answer

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