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

whats wrong with my code it works in pycharm 3.6

Wow, I just can't stump you! OK, two more to go. I think this one's my favorite, though. Create a function named most_courses that takes our good ol' teacher dictionary. most_courses should return the name of the teacher with the most courses. You might need to hold onto some sort of max count variable.

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.


dictionary = {"Andrew Chalkley": ['jQuery Basics', 'Node.js Basics'],
              "Kenneth Love": ["Python Basics", "Python Collections",]
              "Jay": ["bbbb", "aaaa", "cccc"]}
def num_teachers(dictionary):
    box1 = 0
    for key in dictionary.keys():
        box1 += 1
    return box1


def num_courses(dictionary):
    box2 = 0
    for dict in dictionary:
        box2 += len(dictionary[dict])
    return box2

def courses(dictionary):
    single_list = []
    for value in dictionary.values():
        single_list.extend(value)
    return single_list


def most_courses(dictionary):
    for key, value in dictionary.items():
        max_count = 3
        if len(value) == max_count:
            return key

1 Answer

Brendan Whiting
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They've given you an example of what the teacher/course data will look like. But this isn't necessarily the real test data. You've hard coded 3 as the max count. You need to compute it from the data. Also I think you missed a comma in the sample dictionary data before where you added an item.