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

Ryan Downing
Ryan Downing
1,293 Points

What's wrong with my solution?

whats wrong with my stats function?

seems to work fine on pycharm with some test cases.

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(some_dict):
    return len(some_dict.keys())

def num_courses(some_dict):
    return sum(len(courses) for courses in some_dict.values())

def courses(some_dict):
    return [i for courses in some_dict.values() for i in courses]

def most_courses(some_dict):
    max_key = None
    big = 0
    for k, v in some_dict.items():
        if len(v) > big:
            big = len(v)
            max_key = k
    return max_key'

def stats(some_dict):
    return [[k, len(v)] for k, v in some_dict.items()]

2 Answers

You seem to have a stray ' symbol on this line:

return max_key'

Note that this error isn't in the stats function, is appears in one of the previous functions, most_courses.

I hope this helps :grin:

Happy coding! :tada:

:dizzy: ~Alex :dizzy:

His stats function is 100% correct. The error is he left a stray ' symbol on this line (in his most_courses function):

return max_key'